Aluminium Bahrain (Alba) became the first company in the Gulf region to be certified under the ISO 18788:2015 Certification program.
The certification was obtained through Bureau Veritas and awarded after an audit of Alba’s Security Operations Management System (SOMS) at Alba’s main plant, its Calciner and Marine Facility and its SPL Treatment Plan.
Alba’s Chief Executive Officer, Ali Al Baqali, explained the importance of the ISO certification in a related press release.
“We are honoured to be the first industrial organisation in the Region and Bahrain to have received ISO 18788:2015 Certification. This certification demonstrates our strong governance as a business to continue leading the way in our industry and is a testament to our commitment to meet international standards while doing our work.”
Alba is one of the largest industrial companies in the Middle East and is the world’s biggest aluminium smelter outside the People’s Republic of China. Originally incorporated in 1968, the company is based in Bahrain and 84% of its total workforce are Bahraini nationals. It began operations in 1971 with a 120,000 metric ton annual capacity. Modernization bumped the output up to 450,000 metric tons in 1992. In the spring of 2005, Alba opened Line 5, raising output by 860,000 metric tons per year. In 2022 Alba’s smelter produced 1,600,111 metric tons of primary aluminium.
