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According to the Emirates News Agency, the cost of constructing the refinery was about $ 3.3 billion and is located in Khalifa Industrial City in Abu Dhabi Kizad and is considered the first refinery for alumina in the UAE and this marks the entry of the alumina industry as an activity A new industrialist in the country.
Alumina is the primary material for aluminum smelters and is extracted from bauxite ore .. Upon its full capacity, it is expected that the long refinery of alumina will produce about two million tons of alumina annually, To replace some imports and secure Emirates International Aluminum Company supplies of this raw material, bearing in mind that the UAE is currently importing all quantities of Alumina that it needs from abroad.
The construction of the Alumina long refinery took 72 million hours - the equivalent of one person's work for more than 25,000 years and the number of the workforce at the height of the construction work reached 11,542 workers.
It is expected that Al Taweelah Alumina Refinery will transfer about five million tons of bauxite to alumina annually when it is operating at full capacity, and the bauxite will be imported for the project from the Compagnie de Buxit de Guiné. Mining in the Republic of Guinea in West Africa.
Emirates International Aluminum Company is also building facilities for mining and exporting bauxite ore in the Republic of Guinea with another strategic development project to produce raw materials .. It is expected that the first shipments will be exported Bauxite during the second half of this year and sold to customers around the world.
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