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Article: Dubal maintains full capacity output.
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- Gulf News (United Arab Emirates)
- Article date:
- May 14, 2009
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Dubai: Dubai Aluminium Company Limited (Dubal) - the world's largest modern smelter with a captive power station - continues to operate at full production capacity. This was confirmed by Abdullah J.M. Kalban, President and CEO of Dubal , while delivering the welcome address at the 14th World Aluminium Conference, co-hosted by the Commodity Research Unit and Dubal at the Grand Hyatt Dubai.
Dubal's stance is bold, given the drastic cuts in capacity among the world's major aluminium producers given the downturn.
It is nevertheless a stance based on sound business sense, Kalban explained.
"During the first quarter of the year, Dubal experienced a 30 ...