EGA's Al Taweelah plant sustained extensive damage in an Iranian drone strike on March 28. Photo: EGAEGA's Al Taweelah plant sustained extensive damage in an Iranian drone strike on March 28. Photo: EGABasic utilities back online, with natural gas and electricity availability projected to increase
Emirates Global Aluminium has made significant progress restarting its Al Taweelah plant, three months after an Iranian drone attack caused extensive damage.
The attack on March 28 forced a full evacuation and emergency shutdown of the smelter, power plant, alumina refinery and recycling plant, injuring two people.
EGA has restored 89 of 1,262 reduction cells so far, with frozen metal removed from more than 20 per cent of all cells.
Despite faster-than-expected progress, the aluminium producer has maintained its estimate that full recovery could take up to a year.
