Alba, Mitsubishi Heavy Industries sign MoU for Carbon Capture

TDT | Manama

The Daily Tribune – www.newsofbahrain.com

Aluminium Bahrain (Alba) announced signing a Memorandum of Understanding with Mitsubishi Heavy Industries EMEA Ltd. (MHI EMEA), part of Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI) Group, yesterday to help reduce Alba’s carbon footprint.

The MoU -- first-of-its-kind with an aluminium producer – will lay the foundations to conduct a feasibility study on utilising the technology to capture CO2 from flue gas, developed by MHI Group in collaboration with Kansai Electric Power Co., to reduce Alba’s plant emissions for decarbonisation.

The signing ceremony held at Al Dana Hall was attended by Alba’s Chairman of the Board Shaikh Daij bin Salman bin Daij Al Khalifa and Kentaro Hosomi - CEO of MHI EMEA, in the presence of Chief Executive Officer Ali Al Baqali and Chief Power Officer Amin Sultan, in addition to senior officials from MHI Group.

Alba’s Chairman of the Board, Shaikh Daij bin Salman bin Daij Al Khalifa, said: “This MoU will play a fundamental role as we want to be accelerators and embed sustainability considerations in our operations to be more environmentally responsible and inclusive.

We are also pleased to partner with MHI Group - a proven leader in Carbon Capture technology - as we chart our journey in our race to decarbonisation.”

The CEO of MHI EMEA, Kentaro Hosomi, added: “It is partnerships such as this that enable the industry to move quickly on the way to carbon neutrality.”