Emirates Global Aluminium starts USA recycling expansion
Emirates Global Aluminium (EGA) has started production at the expansion of its Spectro Alloys aluminium recycling plant in Minnesota, USA. The expansion adds 55,000 tonnes of secondary billet production capacity in the first phase.
The ramp-up to full production is expected to be completed early next year. The expansion takes EGA Spectro Alloys’ total production capacity to 165,000 tonnes per year of recycled aluminium ingots and billets.
Metal from the expansion project will be sold under EGA’s recycled aluminium product brand RevivAL. The completion of the expansion project will bring EGA’s global aluminium recycling capacity to 195,000 tonnes per year, with plants in the USA and Germany.
EGA is currently building the UAE’s largest aluminium recycling plant in Al Taweelah, which will have a capacity of 170,000 tonnes per year of aluminium billets. The UAE recycling plant is expected to begin production in the first half of 2026.
Demand for recycled aluminium in the USA is expected to reach some 7.6 million tonnes per year by 2033, according to CRU business intelligence organisation. The USA is the world’s second biggest recycled aluminium market.
Recycling aluminium requires 95% less electricity than making new metal, and generates a fraction of the greenhouse gas emissions.
