The ceremony to mark the first hot metal milestone was held in Ras Al Khair. (Image source: Maaden)
The first of 740 smelting furnaces has been commissioned successfully at Saudi Arabian Mining Company (Maaden) and Alcoa?s joint venture smelter project at Ras Al Khair in Saudi Arabia
Russia?s TMK has acquired 55 per cent stake in Oman?s GIPI. (Image source: GIPI)
Russian producer of steel pipes for the energy sector, TMK, has announced that it has acquired a 55 per cent stake in Oman?s Gulf International Pipe Industry (GIPI)
The first shipment to Saudi contained 47,000 tonnes of alumina. (Image source: Alcoa)
The first alumina shipment for the Maaden Alcoa aluminium joint-venture manufacturing complex has departed Alcoa?s Bunbury Port facility in Western Australia for Ras Al Khair in Saudi Arabia
Emirates Steel, the only integrated steel plant in the UAE, announced the completion of its US$1.9bn phase two expansion programme
The plant will produce one million tonnes of steel annually. (Image source: Csaba Moln?r)
Dhofar Steel has announced plans to build a US$400 million steel plant in Salalah in southern Oman
