Deal to create value from waste in the UAE
Emirates Global Aluminium and Geocycle UAE, part of the world’s largest building solutions group LafargeHolcim, recently announced they have signed an agreement to extend their ground-breaking 10-year partnership in creating value from industrial waste in the UAE.
EGA has worked with LafargeHolcim since 2010 to find productive uses in the UAE for spent pot lining, the used inner lining of reduction cells, which is one of the aluminium industry’s most significant waste streams.
The two companies jointly developed a technique for pre-processing and then using spent pot lining as an alternative feedstock in local cement manufacturing. LafargeHolcim established Geocycle UAE as a subsidiary focused on pre-processing spent pot lining and other materials.
Since 2010, EGA has supplied GeocycleUAE with over 160,000 tonnes of spent pot lining, requiring almost 3,000 truck trips between the two company’s facilities.
Over the next two years, EGA will supply a further 40,000 tonnes of spent pot lining, both to Geocycle UAE and directly as pre-processed material to LafargeHolcim’s cement plant in Fujairah. Last year, EGA commissioned its own spent pot lining crushing facility at Al Taweelah.
“Our partnership with LafargeHolcim, Geocycle UAE and the broader UAE cement industry has played an important role in enabling us to turn spent pot lining from a problem into a valuable resource,” affirmed Abdulnasser Bin Kalban, CEO, Emirates Global Aluminium
“This renewed contract for SPL pre-processing adds to the successful journey of waste treatment and recycling between Geocycle UAE and EGA during the past 10 years that helped improve sustainability in the UAE,” asserted Medhat Ismail, General Manager, Geocycle UAE.
