{"id":20192,"date":"2026-09-18T20:30:10","date_gmt":"2026-09-18T20:30:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/metarexllcco.com\/?p=20192"},"modified":"2026-09-20T20:32:54","modified_gmt":"2026-09-20T20:32:54","slug":"bahrain-aluminum-alba-restores-potlines-4-6-to-80-of-pre-war-capacity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/metarexllcco.com\/index.php\/2026\/09\/18\/bahrain-aluminum-alba-restores-potlines-4-6-to-80-of-pre-war-capacity\/","title":{"rendered":"Bahrain | Aluminum: Alba Restores Potlines 4\u20136 to 80% of Pre-War Capacity"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.albasmelter.com\/uploads\/photo-gallery\/mq_Alba_Aerial_Shots__43_.jpeg\" alt=\"\" style=\"aspect-ratio:1.501424342289002;width:540px;height:auto\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color has-medium-font-size wp-elements-1\"><strong>Aluminium Bahrain\u2019s potlines 4, 5 and 6 were operating at approximately 80% of their pre-war capacity. <\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color has-medium-font-size wp-elements-2\"><strong>Alba\u2019s annualized output recovered to about 1.3 million tonnes, compared with total capacity of roughly 1.62 million tonnes. <\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color has-medium-font-size wp-elements-3\"><strong>The smelter requires approximately 3.1\u20133.2 million tonnes of alumina annually. <\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color has-medium-font-size wp-elements-4\"><strong>EGA and Ma\u2019aden supported Alba with raw materials, while additional bagged alumina was transported from Oman\u2019s Sohar port. <\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color has-medium-font-size wp-elements-5\"><strong>Limited truck and driver availability remains a major operational risk, with around 300 trucks required for one 30,000-tonne alumina cargo.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"567\" height=\"189\" src=\"https:\/\/metarexllcco.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/METAREX-NEWS-AGENTS-LOGO1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-18968\" style=\"width:127px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/metarexllcco.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/METAREX-NEWS-AGENTS-LOGO1.jpg 567w, https:\/\/metarexllcco.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/METAREX-NEWS-AGENTS-LOGO1-400x133.jpg 400w, https:\/\/metarexllcco.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/METAREX-NEWS-AGENTS-LOGO1-430x143.jpg 430w, https:\/\/metarexllcco.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/METAREX-NEWS-AGENTS-LOGO1-150x50.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 567px) 100vw, 567px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[82,80],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20192","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-non-ferrous"],"rttpg_featured_image_url":null,"rttpg_author":{"display_name":"Author","author_link":"https:\/\/metarexllcco.com\/index.php\/author\/ghazizadeh\/"},"rttpg_comment":0,"rttpg_category":"<a href=\"https:\/\/metarexllcco.com\/index.php\/category\/general\/\" rel=\"category tag\">General<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/metarexllcco.com\/index.php\/category\/non-ferrous\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Non-Ferrous<\/a>","rttpg_excerpt":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/metarexllcco.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20192","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/metarexllcco.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/metarexllcco.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/metarexllcco.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/metarexllcco.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20192"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/metarexllcco.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20192\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20193,"href":"https:\/\/metarexllcco.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20192\/revisions\/20193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/metarexllcco.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/metarexllcco.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20192"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/metarexllcco.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}