Emirates Global Aluminium (EGA), the largest ‘premium aluminum’ producer in the world, has announced further expansion of the EGA Spectro Alloys in Minnesota in the United States, which will take the aluminum recycling plant’s total capacity to 200 thousand tonnes per year.
The new project will add an additional 45 thousand tons of annual recycled billet capacity at EGA Spectro Alloys. Construction is expected to be completed in 2027.
EGA acquired 80 percent of EGA Spectro Alloys in 2024. EGA Spectro Alloys is currently ramping up production at the first phase of its expansion, which added 55 thousand tonnes of billet capacity. Construction of the first phase was completed in July this year.
The latest expansion at EGA Spectro Alloys includes an additional scrap melting furnace and a batch homogenizer. EGA Spectro Alloy’s metal is marketed under EGA’s recycled aluminum product brand, RevivAL.
Abdulnasser Bin Kalban CEO – EGA
“The next phase of expansion at EGA Spectro Alloys is another important step in growing our production in the United States, where there is strong demand for both primary and recycled EGA-quality metal ‘made in America’.”
Demand for recycled aluminum in the United States is expected to reach some 8 million tonnes per year by 2034, according to CRU, an independent business intelligence organization. The United States is currently the world’s second biggest recycled aluminum market.
In Oklahoma, EGA plans to develop the first new primary aluminum production plant in the United States of America since 1980.
The plant is expected to have a production capacity of at least 600 thousand tons of primary aluminum per year, nearly doubling the United States’ current primary aluminum production.
EGA is currently building the UAE’s largest aluminum recycling plant in Al Taweelah, which will have a capacity of 100 thousand tonnes per year of aluminum billets and 84 thousand tonnes of T-Bars. The UAE recycling plant is expected to begin production during the first quarter of 2026.
