Aluminium Bahrain, one of the largest and modern aluminium smelters in the world, said Abdul Rasool Ahmed Abdul Rasool has been promoted as the new director of casthouse.

Rasool joined Alba in 1985 as an operator and was promoted to supervisor casthouse in 1997. He was then appointed as the casthouse manager in 2006 and thereafter made the senior casthouse manager in 2013.

Lauding the appointment, Alba’s chief executive Tim Murray said: "Casthouse is the operational area that interfaces directly with our customers and Rasool has played a critical role in maximising Alba's value-added production (VAP)."

"Alba will continue down the path of growing our VAP portfolio with the commissioning of a new state-of-the-art casthouse as part of the Line 6 Expansion Project," stated Murray.

"Rasool is another great example of developing management talent from within the company. He is a true leader in every sense of the word and I am confident that he will take the performance of our Casthouse operations to the next level," he added.

Rasool has a higher national diploma in metals technology, Sandwell College, UK and associate diploma in technology (chemical engineering) from Hindustan Institute of Engineering, Madras, India.-TradeArabia News Service