Middle East Business: EGA CEO personally thanks its Covid-19 team – Gulf Digital News

Middle East Business: EGA CEO personally thanks its Covid-19 team – Gulf Digital News

Abdulnasser Bin Kalban, Chief Executive Officer of Emirates Global Aluminium (EGA), the largest industrial company in the UAE outside oil and gas, today (August 4) visited the company’s medical centre in Al Taweelah to personally thank EGA’s Covid-19 team, who pledged to keep EGA’s workplace safe.

EGA is a vital industrial company and a foundation of both the UAE and Guinean economies. Thousands of EGA employees remained on-site throughout the pandemic to run the company’s industrial operations and ensure the production of the metal the world needs, EGA said in a statement. EGA makes one-in-every 25 tonnes of aluminium produced worldwide.

EGA has closely followed the guidelines set out by the UAE and Guinean authorities to protect its people. In the UAE, EGA’s medical centres are permanently staffed with 65 doctors, nurses, and other personnel who are on duty around the clock to keep people safe. In response to the Covid-19 pandemic, EGA deployed two additional medical teams to conduct regular Covid-19 testing of all employees and contractors working at EGA sites in the UAE.

In Guinea, EGA almost doubled the size of its medical team to support and care for employees. EGA also worked with authorities to provide neighbouring communities with vital