EGA completes Italian recycling acquisition
Emirates Global Aluminium (EGA) has acquired an 80% stake in Italian aluminium recycling company Eco Green.
EGA confirmed its intention to acquire the majority stake in Eco Green in April. The transaction has now cleared all required regulatory approvals.
EGA now has more than 400,000 tonnes per year of aluminium recycling capacity in the UAE, the United States, Germany and Italy, with a further 200,000 tonnes of capacity under development.
Industry analysts expect around half of all aluminium demand to be met with recycled metal by 2040.
Europe, excluding Russia, is the world’s third-largest recycled aluminium market after the United States and China.
EGA is also a major primary aluminium supplier to Europe, selling around 600,000 tonnes per year of primary aluminium to European industries.
Eco Green has two plants in northeast Italy and specialises in aluminium scrap collection, sorting and casting, and dross processing.
The company distributes more than 70,000 tonnes per year.
Eco Green was founded by the Scappini family in 1993.
The family remain minority shareholders, and members of the management team. The company will be rebranded as EGA Eco Green.
In Villafranca di Verona, Eco Green collects, sorts and distributes approximately 23,000 tonnes of aluminium scrap annually.
Some of this scrap is supplied to the Eco Green plant in nearby Nogara di Verona, which casts more than 20,000 tonnes of secondary sows per year.
The furnace at Nogara di Verona has a nameplate capacity of 30,000 tonnes per year. The plant also processes dross.
Eco Green is expanding the Nogara di Verona facility to add 20,000 tonnes per year of recycled aluminium capacity.
The expansion is expected to be complete in December 2026.
Eco Green has more than 60 customers across Europe, and a network of more than 350 aluminium scrap suppliers.
In Germany, EGA acquired EGA Leichtmetall in 2024. In December, EGA announced a major expansion project that will increase EGA Leichtmetall’s recycling capacity more than six-fold, adding 110,000 tonnes per year of scrap sorting capacity and 150,000 tonnes per year of melting and casting capacity.
Also in 2024 EGA acquired 80% of EGA Spectro Alloys in the USA. EGA Spectro Alloys completed an expansion in July 2025, bringing its total production capacity to 165,000 tonnes per year of recycled aluminium ingots and billets.
A second expansion phase, adding a further 35,000 tonnes of billet capacity, is under development, with first hot metal expected in 2027.
In the UAE, EGA is currently ramping up production at the new Al Taweelah recycling plant, the country’s largest aluminium recycling facility with a capacity of 185,000 tonnes per year.
