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Emal's smelter to begin in December


United Arab Emirates: 2009-11-10 10:33:21
Emirates Aluminium (Emal), the world's biggest single aluminium smelter, has announced that it will begin production next month, Reuters has reported. The $5.7bn project, located at Al Taweelah in Abu Dhabi, will have a full production capacity of 700,000 tonnes of aluminium per year from the first phase, expected to be reached by December 2010.