Middle East Business

Dubai aluminium profile maker hits 1,500 tonnes in a month, its best in ten years

By Staff Writer  |  24 August 2026

Emirates Extrusion Factory says production and sales volumes both rose 24 per cent against the first half of last year, on the highest monthly output it has recorded in ten years.

Emirates Extrusion Factory, a wholly owned subsidiary of Dubai Investments, recorded its strongest first half production performance in a decade during the six months to the end of June. The company makes aluminium profiles for architectural, engineering and industrial use, which puts it upstream of a large part of the region's facade, window and curtain walling supply chain.

Within the period it reached a peak monthly output of 1,500 metric tonnes, which it describes as its highest monthly production level in the past ten years. Production and sales volumes each rose 24 per cent against the first half of 2025.

Achieving a peak monthly production output of 1,500 metric tonnes during the period underscores our ability to maximise manufacturing efficiency while consistently delivering the quality, reliability and service standards our customers expect.

Sreekumar Brahmanandan, General Manager of Emirates Extrusion Factory

Why an extruder's output figure travels down the programme

Aluminium profile is a long lead item on almost every commercial building in the Gulf, and it sits on the critical path more often than its cost share suggests. Facade packages are usually let late, the die and section design is bespoke, and the mill will not start extruding until the section is frozen. A supplier running at record volume is a supplier whose slot in the queue is worth having.

The 24 per cent figure is a volume figure, not a value figure. The company has not given a revenue or margin number and has not said what proportion of the increase came from the domestic market as against export. Aluminium prices moved through the period, so a volume rise of that size does not translate directly into anything on the profit line.

A tonnage record from a profile supplier is a demand signal from the schemes already in construction, not from the ones being launched. Extrusion is ordered against a fixed section, which means the design is already settled.

What the company attributes it to

The reasons given are production planning, the management of mixed order schedules, raw material availability and coordination across operations. Raw material availability is the one worth noting: an extruder is only as reliable as its billet supply, and naming it first among the causes is an implicit statement about how the last year has gone.

The company says its order pipeline has strengthened across both domestic and export markets, and that it serves customers in the United Arab Emirates, the wider Gulf, Asia and Africa. It has given no order book value and no split between those markets.

What has not been published

There is no total tonnage for the half, only the peak month. There is no installed capacity figure, so the 1,500 tonne month cannot be read as a utilisation rate. No new line, press or investment has been announced alongside the result.

Sreekumar Brahmanandan said the company remains focused on productivity and on building on the momentum. For specifiers and facade subcontractors the practical question is narrower: whether a section ordered this autumn arrives when the programme says it will.