From right: Abdul Raheem AlHashemi, EMAL, Senior Manager, Corporate Affairs; Adel Abubakar, Senior Manager, Marketing & Sales, Europe & The Americas, Dubal; Walid Al Attar: Executive Vice President, Marketing & Sales, Dubal; and Mohammed Yahya, Manager, Corporate Relations and International Affairs, Dubal. DUBAI Aluminum (DUBAL) and Emirates Aluminum (EMAL) participatied jointly in the exhibition component held alongside the recently concluded 2nd Annual Aluminum Summit hosted by leading metals publication, American Metal Market. The combined DUBAL-EMAL exhibition stand showcased the two companies, and their product portfolios. DUBAL's Marketing and Sales team is responsible for marketing the metal produced by EMAL. This amounted to 288,568 metric tons of cast aluminum in 2010, and 749,000 metric tons in 2011; in addition to DUBAL's own sales, which exceeded one million tons in both years. The American market is particularly important to the UAE smelters: approximately 123,900 metric tonnes of DUBAL's 2011 production was shipped to North America, as was some 119,160 metric tons of that produced by EMAL - i.e. 243,060 metric tons in total, representing 13.6 per cent of the two companies' combined production. "We participated in the inaugural Annual Aluminum Summit in 2011," said Walid Al Attar (Executive Vice President Marketing & Sales at DUBAL and Vice President Marketing & Sale at EMAL). Participation of DUBAL and EMAL at the Summit reflects continued confidence in the potential growth within this market going forward. – SG
