Emirates Global Aluminium, the largest ‘premium aluminium’ producer in the world, today announced a significant expansion of EGA Leichtmetall in Germany.
The new facility, located near Hannover, will increase EGA Leichtmetall’s recycling capacity more than six-fold, adding 110 thousand tonnes per year of scrap sorting capacity and 153 thousand tonnes per year of melting and casting capacity. The project represents an investment of approximately $170 million, with first hot metal expected in 2028.
EGA Leichtmetall’s existing Hannover site has melting and casting capacity of around 30 thousand tonnes per year.
The planned new facility will be among the first in the world to combine a state-of-the-art scrap sorting system, advanced furnace technologies, and an integrated salt recovery process in a single location.EGA also operates EGA Spectro Alloys in Minnesota, in the United States, where the first phase of an expansion was recently completed featuring similar sorting technologies. A second phase is underway that will increase the EGA Spectro Alloys plant’s total capacity to 200,000 tonnes per year during 2027. In the UAE, EGA’s construction of the country’s largest aluminium recycling plant is nearing completion.