Sponsors

Gold Sponsor

Emirates Global Aluminium

Emirates Global Aluminium is the world’s largest ‘premium aluminium’ producer and the biggest industrial company in the United Arab Emirates outside oil and gas.

EGA is an integrated aluminium producer, with operations on four continents from bauxite mining to the production of cast primary aluminium and recycling. EGA operates aluminium smelters in Jebel Ali and Al Taweelah in the United Arab Emirates, an alumina refinery in Al Taweelah, a bauxite mine and associated export facilities in the Republic of Guinea, a speciality foundry in high strength recycled aluminium in Germany, and a recycling plant in the United States.

EGA produces one-in-every-25 tonnes of aluminium made worldwide, and supplies customers in more than 50 countries. The growing broader aluminium sector in the UAE supports more than 57,000 jobs. Aluminium is among the world’s most versatile metals, and EGA’s global customers transform it into products that make modern life possible. EGA’s aluminium is primarily used in the construction, automotive, packaging, aerospace and electronics industries.

As a corporate citizen of the UAE, EGA aspires in all its operations to be measured amongst the world’s leading metals and mining companies in meeting its environmental and social responsibilities.

For more information on EGA please visit www.ega.ae.

Silver Sponsor

London Metal Exchange

The London Metal Exchange is the world centre for the trading of industrial metals – the majority of all non-ferrous metal futures business is transacted on our trading platforms: LMEselect (electronic), the Ring (open outcry) and the 24-hour telephone market. In 2024, 178 million lots were traded in total on our markets, equating to $18 trillion and 4 billion tonnes notional, with a market open interest high of 1.8 million lots.

A member of HKEX Group, the LME brings together participants from the physical industry and the financial community to create a robust, regulated market where there is always a buyer and a seller, where there is always a price and where there is always the opportunity to transfer or take on risk – 24 hours a day. The Exchange provides producers and consumers of metal with a physical market of last and the ability to hedge against the risk of rising and falling world metal prices.

Investors value the LME as a vibrant futures exchange and for its close links to industry. The possibility of physical delivery via the world-wide network of over 465 LME-approved warehouses makes it the perfect hedging venue for industry and provides a reference price everyone can trust.

The LME is the home of aluminium trading, and the daily Official Price for the LME Aluminium contract is the global benchmark price. 260,000 lots of LME Aluminium traded on average every day last year, equalling 1.8 billion tonnes in total.