Abu Dhabi-based Emirates Aluminium (Emal) expects to complete a capacity expansion plan that will help its current output triple to 700,000 tonnes, by the end of this year, a company executive said.

The company produces more than 200,000 tonnes from its Phase-1 greenfield smelter. “By December we will have all the pots ready to produce 700,000 tonnes and the actual 700,000 will be reached by the start of 2011,” Yousuf Bastaki, vice president of projects at Emal told Reuters in the first fortnight of November.
   
“There are no delays to these plans and we are on track to complete them,” he added.

Emal first started production from its $5.7 billion project located at Al Taweelha in Abu Dhabi in January. The company is a 50-50 joint venture between Dubai Aluminium Company Limited (Dubal) and Mubadala Development Company (Mubadala), Abu Dhabi’s investment vehicle.
    
Emal is expected to be the world’s largest single-site aluminium smelter complex after its second phase of around 700,000 tonnes per year is completed in 2013-14 for a total of 1,400 tonnes. The first phase will have a capacity of more than 2,000 megawatts of electricity.