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QATALUM TAKING
PART AGAIN
IN ANNUAL QP
ENVIRONMENTAL FAIR

Company promoting water
conservation solutions innovations
in aluminium industry
to broad audience

Qatalum is taking part in the Qatar Petroleum
Environmental Fair to deliver the message to visitors
that aluminium is a genuinely sustainable metal that
can lead to a more sustainable world. The slogan of
the exhibition is “God created from water every living
thing”.

The company’s theme for the Fair, which starts today
and runs to 26th April shows that aluminium helps to
preserve water and Aluminium production is a water-
conscious production process. Aluminium, Qatalum is
keen to emphasise, helps to improve environmental
performance due to its water conservation innovation
efficiency. Qatalum will be able to show technologies
for treating water pollution, the use of water in
the smelting process, and how water recycling
and conservation is at the forefront of Qatalum’s
environmental agenda.

At Qatalum, Seawater is used for wet scrubbing and scan here to
for the cooling tower. Once used, it is treated to meet view Qatalum’s
Ministry of Environment specifications for quality and at the Annual
temperature and then returned to the sea. But in fact, Environmental Fair
both fresh and salt water are used in the aluminium
process; and in doing so, Qatalum implements a
number of known techniques and guidelines that
allow for efficient water consumption, practices as
regular treatment and re-use of water on-site.
The QP Environmental Fair has been organized since
2004, and this year will be the 8th edition of the event.
QPEF 2014 will be held for the first time for four days to
effectively promote environmental awareness among
students, the employees of QP and its joint ventures
and subsidiaries, and the general public. There will also
be theatre and games activities for children, with an
educational message to increase awareness of water
conservation and usage.

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