EGA, Geocycle UAE to create value from industrial waste

EGA, Geocycle UAE to create value from industrial waste

Emirates Global Aluminium (EGA) and Geocycle UAE, part of the building solutions group LafargeHolcim, on Sunday 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. Abdulnasser Bin Kalban, Chief Executive Officer of Emirates Global Aluminium, said, "Aluminium is lightweight, strong and