Hany Salaam | ALBA wins the 2020 GCC Project of the Year

 

The world’s largest aluminum smelter, Aluminum Bahrain (Alba)’s Line 6 Expansion Project has bagged the much-coveted GCC Industrial Project of the Year in the 2020 edition of the MEED Projects Awards.  As one of Alba’s notable investors and current GCC chairman and CEO Chairman Hany Salaam spoke to us regarding what this award means for the company and the smelting world. 

 


The MEED Projects Awards recognizes the best projects in the GCC across various sectors and promotes best practices in project delivery and operations, as well as innovation and sustainability. “I am so proud that Alba’s Line 6 Expansion Project has also been elected as National Winner for both Industrial Project of the Year and Mega Project of the Year Awards”, said Hany Sallam. This win came following a rigorous judging process based on a range of criteria including innovation, sustainability, design, and engineering among others, Alba’s Line 6 Expansion project was a top contender for this Award standing-out amongst other cutting-edge projects in the GCC.

 

Commenting on these awards, Hany Salaam said: “We are pleased that Alba Line 6 Expansion Project has been the recipient of MEED Industrial Project of 2020 at the GCC level - this truly recognizes Alba’s strategic importance as one of the industrial cornerstones of Bahrain as well as its commitment to the Kingdom’s Economic Vision 2030. According to Hany Salaam, Alba will be closing 2020 as the world’s largest smelter w/o China thanks to the Line 6 Expansion Project. This Landmark Project is a pledge of value creation for all our stakeholders and Bahrain’s society for the generations to come

 One of the largest brownfield projects in the region, Alba’s Line 6 Expansion Project is a remarkable success in many ways. With a Caex of $3 billion, this project comprised the construction of Reduction Line 6, Power Station 5 (PS 5) and other industrial facilities. Line 6 Expansion Project set benchmarks in sustainable aluminium production -- implementation of the proprietary Emirates Global Aluminium (EGA) DX+ Ultra Technology in Reduction Line 6 increases the output with no increase in energy consumption, while GE’s 9HA Gas Turbine technology in PS 5 has made it the most efficient Combined-Cycle power plant in the Gulf region. “Reduction Line 6 was commissioned within 23 months, one of the fastest expansion projects to be ever commissioned in the aluminum industry. The Line 6 Expansion Project also echoed Alba’s strong Safety culture by recording more than (60,893,000) safe working-hours without Lost Time Injury – a notable feat in the aluminum smelting industry”, concluded Hany Salaam. 



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