# Alba's Line 6 expansion project on track for January 2019 launch

Aluminium Bahrain's Line 6 expansion project, which will increase capacity by 52% to 1.5 million metric tonnes per year, is on track to launch in January 2019. The project is expected to create 3,200 jobs.

- Type: Expansion
- Announced: 2018-02-14
- Where: Bahrain, Bahrain
- Value: $3.00B
- Jobs: 3,200
- Starts operating: Jan 2019
- Status: under construction
- Capacity: 1.5 million metric tonnes per year
- Products: aluminium
- Sectors: [Steel and Metal Products](https://endata.com/sectors/steel-metal-products.md)

## Companies

- [Aluminium Bahrain](https://endata.com/companies/9766.md)

## Sources

- [crownprince.bh](https://www.crownprince.bh/en/news/42348/), 2018-02-14: "The Line 6 expansion project will result in Alba becoming the world’s largest aluminium smelter producing 1.5 million metric tonnes of aluminium each year – a 52 percent expansion of current production levels."
- [gulftime.ae](https://gulftime.ae/bahrains-alba-on-track-to-complete-debt-financing-for-smelter-expansion/), 2018-02-25: "Line 6 is on track to start production at the beginning of 2019, after which Alba will need about six months to ramp up output fully."

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