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UAE: LafargeHolcim subsidiary Geocycle UAE has extended its reduction cell pot lining supply contract with Emirates Global Aluminium (EGA) by 10 years. Emirates News Agency has reported that during the contract’s previous term EGA supplied Geocycle UAE with 160,000t of spent pot lining for use in production at LafargeHolcim cement plants. The partners already plan to transport a further 40,000t of pot lining from aluminium production in 2021 and 2022, both to Geocycle and directly as pre-processed material to LafargeHolcim’s Fajairah cement plant. EGA began spent pot lining processing at its new Al Taweelah pot lining crushing facility in 2020.

Geocycle UAE general manager Medhat Ismail said, "At Geocycle UAE and LafargeHolcim, our vision of enabling a circular economy starts with the preservation of natural resources by substituting fossil fuels and raw materials with waste or by-products. We aim to bring society a step closer to a zero-waste future. To achieve this goal, we need progressive partners such as EGA."

UAE: Emirates Global Aluminium (EGA) says it will supply almost all of its production of carbon dust for use as an alternative fuel by the local cement industry. Over the next two years, it will increase its supply of carbon dust to around 78,000t. The move extends EGA’s cooperation with cement companies to re-use by-products of aluminium smelting such as spent pot lining.

Carbon dust is generated during the process of producing anodes, large carbon blocks that are consumed during aluminium smelting. EGA will supply the cement industry with both newly produced carbon dust and stockpiled material. Freshly-produced carbon dust will be supplied directly to the cement industry. For stockpiled carbon dust, EGA has signed a contract with Heavy Machinery Viqa for processing and re-use. Heavy Machinery Viqa specialises in recovering and recycling by-products from heavy industries in the UAE.

UAE: Emirates Global Aluminium (EGA) has signed an agreement to supply 27,000t of spent pot lining (SPL) by 2020 to Gulf Cement. Although EGA has supplied SPL to the cement industry since 2010, the deal is the first directly between EGA and a cement company rather than via specialist third party pre-processors. EGA is building facilities at its Al Taweelah site to process SPL so it is delivered ready to be used by cement companies as an alternative fuel and raw material.

“This direct agreement with Gulf Cement Company is a milestone in our drive to turn our by-products into value by using them as feedstock for other industries. Finding economic uses for waste contributes to the achievement of ‘UAE Vision 2021’ environmental and economic goals and will benefit both our companies. We are glad to be working with Gulf Cement Company on this important project for the industrial sector in the UAE,” said Abdulla Kalban, managing director and chief executive officer (CEO) of EGA.

In 2017 EGA supplied more SPL to the UAE’s cement industry than it produced. EGA has been supplying Gulf Cement Company with SPL via third parties for testing since 2015. Under the new agreement, EGA will deliver 2000t of SPL to Gulf Cement Company in 2018. In 2019, the volumes will increase to 10,000t followed by 15,000t in 2020.

UAE: Emirates Global Aluminium (EGA) has increased the amount of by-products it recycled in 2017 by nearly 25% to 96,000t from 77,000t in 2016. EGA’s smelting operations in Abu Dhabi and Dubai produce several by-product streams, particularly for use by the cement industry.

Spent pot lining (SPL), the used inner lining of the pots in which aluminium is smelted, is a source of fuel and refractory materials for the cement industry. EGA says it supplied almost twice as much SPL to UAE cement plants in 2017 than it produced. The aluminium producer also produces carbon dust that can be used as a fuel by cement plants. EGA recycled most of the carbon dust from its Jebel Ali smelter in 2017 and is seeking similar solutions for carbon dust from its Al Taweelah smelter.

UAE: Emirates Global Aluminium (EGA) and Arkan have agreed to test using spent smelter pot inner lining as a fuel in the cement producer’s kilns. EGA will provide between 1000 – 3000t of the pot lining to test as both fuel to fire the kiln and as refractory material to be incorporated in the finished cement produced at Arkan’s Al Ain plant, according to the National newspaper.

EGA produces about 37,000t/yr of pot lining and has already been testing the waste at other cement plants. The aluminium producer is jointly-owned by the Mubadala Development Company of Abu Dhabi and the Investment Corporation of Dubai.