International Smelter Projects


Since 2005 Heaslip Engineering have been involved in the following international aluminium smelter and related projects:

Alba Line 5  – Bahrain
Emal Phase 1 – Abu Dhabi
Ma’aden Aluminium Smelter  – Saudi Arabia
Ma’aden Rolling Mill – Saudi Arabia
Emal Phase 2 – Abu Dhabi
Kitimat Modernisation Project – British Columbia, Canada
Alba Line 6 – Bahrain

 

Products and services we provided included:
Emirates Aluminium (EMAL) Smelter Phase 1 



Location: Khalifa Industrial Zone – Abu Dhabi 
Technology: EGA DX 
Capacity: 750,000 tonnes per annum

Products supplied:

  • Pot start-up tilters x 5
  • Mobile tapping tube cleaners x 5

Products designed by Heaslip and built by others:

  • Metal crucibles
  • Metal crucible stands
  • Metal tapping yokes
  • Metal tapping lids
  • Metal tapping yoke trailers
  • Metal crucible lifting beams
  • Metal crucible tilting beams
  • Bath crucibles
  • Bath crucible stands
  • Bath crucible lifting beams
  • Bath crucible tilting beams
  • Tapping tube racks
  • Crucible manual cleaning stand

Heaslip Engineering was proud to be associated with this world leading “green field” aluminium smelting project.

Emirates Aluminium (EMAL) Smelter Phase 2


Location:  Khalifa Industrial Zone – Abu Dhabi 
Technology: EGA DX+ 
Capacity:  500,000 tonnes per annum (additional to Phase 1 750,000 tonnes per annum)

Phase 1 products modified or verified by Heaslip for increased crucible capacity:


  • Metal crucibles
  • Metal crucible start-up tilters
  • Metal crucible stands
  • Metal tapping yokes
  • Metal tapping lids
  • Mobile tapping tube cleaners
  • Metal tapping yoke trailers
  • Metal crucible lifting beams
  • Metal crucible tilting beams
  • Tapping tube racks
  • Crucible manual cleaning stand
  • Lid service platform

Heaslip Engineering was pleased to be involved with EMAL’s first expansion project.

Ma’aden Aluminium Smelter – Phase 1 

Location:  Ras Al Khair Industrial City, Saudi Arabia 
Technology:  AP 35 
Capacity:  750,000 tonnes per annum

Products designed by Heaslip and built by others:




  • Metal crucibles
  • Metal crucible stands
  • Metal tapping yokes
  • Metal tapping lids
  • Metal tapping yoke trailers
  • Metal crucible lifting beams
  • Bath crucibles
  • Bath crucible stands
  • Bath crucible lifting beams
  • Bath crucible tilting beams

Heaslip Engineering was pleased to be involved with Saudi Arabia’s first smelter project.

Kitimat Modernization Project

Location:  Kitimat, British Columbia, Canada 
Technology:  AP40
Capacity:  420,000 tonnes per annum

Products designed by Heaslip and built by others:

  • Metal crucibles
  • Metal crucible stands
  • Metal tapping lids
  • Metal crucible lifting beams
  • Bath crucibles
  • Bath crucible stands
  • Bath crucible lifting beams
  • Tapping tube racks
  • Tapping tube changing stands

Heaslip Engineering was pleased to work on the Kitimat smelter modernisation project for Rio Tinto Alcan.

 

Aluminium Bahrain (Alba) Smelter Line 6 

Location: Bahrain
Technology: EGA DX Ultra
Capacity:  540,000 tonnes per annum

 

Products designed by Heaslip and built by others:

  • Metal crucibles
  • Metal crucible stands
  • Metal tapping yokes
  • Metal tapping lids
  • Metal tapping yoke trailers
  • Metal tapping yoke service stand
  • Metal tapping lid inverter beam
  • Metal crucible lifting beams
  • Bath crucibles & lids
  • Bath crucible stands
  • Bath crucible lifting beams
  • Bath crucible trailers
  • Bath crucible lifting & tilting beam
  • Bath transfer launders
  • Crustbreaker stands & stand trailers
  • Crucible manual cleaning stands

Heaslip Engineering was proud to be associated with another expansion at Alba and another smelting project using EGA’s DX Ultra technology.