Aluminium Bahrain has announced the appointment of Dr. Abdulla Habib Ahmed as the acting chief operations officer with immediate effect. Dr. Ahmed joined Alba in 1995 as a trainee engineer. Abdulla has more than 20 years of diversified operations experience in Alba and showed great mettle during the Line 5 Recovery situation. His appointment as the acting COO of Alba comes at a notable time as progress on the Line 6 Expansion Project and am confident the Executive team will greatly benefit with Abdulla in the new position.