aluminium recycling

Novelis Sustainability Report Shows Firm is Well Ahead of Targets

Novelis Sustainability Report Shows Firm is Well Ahead of Targets

Aluminium rolled and recycling firm Novelis, Inc. released its 2017 Sustainability Report yesterday. The firm boasted the achievement of several sustainability targets up to two years ahead of schedule. According to the report, Novelis increased the use of high-recycled metal content inputs...

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Aluminium in Indian packaging, consumer durables to gain traction on rising income, consumerism

When you think of aluminium in India, the sectors that steal the spotlight are electricals, building & construction and defence. Packaging and consumer durables despite their enormous potential for absorbing aluminium are underplayed in the country’s aluminium consumption story. Traditionally, the country’s dependence on materials like glass, paper, plastics and even banana leaves for packaging […]

Rochester Institute of Technology Launches National Recycling Initiative

The Rochester Institute of Technology recently launched a new initiative dedicated to promoting technological advances utilized by small- and medium-sized businesses involved in recycling, reuse, and remanufacturing of materials such as aluminium. The REMADE Institute is the result of a US$150 million investment by the United States federal government, domestic industry, over two dozen major […]

Alupro’s “Leave Your Cap On” Expands Into Two New Authorities

The United Kingdom’s Aluminium Packaging Recycling Organisation (Alupro) is spearheading an effort to encourage Britons to recycle the aluminium caps that are fastened to their glass bottles. Launched in 2015, Alupro’s ‘Leave Your Cap On’ campaign recently expanded into Oxford and Berkshire, raising the total number of bottle banks participating in the campaign to over […]

R&D can power low carbon value growth for Indian firms

The world over, aluminium companies are training their guns on a low carbon growth strategy. With emission reductions topping agendas at international conclaves, aluminium producers, upstream and downstream- are turning more to innovation to build a greener portfolio of products. The trigger for a shift to less polluting capacities is taking place more so in […]

Vedanta Considers Restarting Malco’s Aluminium Recycling Facilities at Tamil Nadu

London’s Vedanta Resources plc is contemplating restarting capacity at Madras Aluminium Company’s (Malco) aluminium recycling facilities at Tamil Nadu according to a report from domestic media. Malco, once a major aluminium mining, refining, and smelting firm in India, is now only engaged in power production. According to Vedanta’s CEO Tom Albanese, smelting is still out […]