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Rio Tinto To Supply BMW With Proprietary Zero-Carbon Aluminium

Rio Tinto To Supply BMW With Proprietary Zero-Carbon Aluminium

Anglo-Australian Rio Tinto Group has agreed to supply German automaker BMW AG with low-carbon aluminium this week. Rio Tinto will be supplying BMW’s production plant in South Carolina with ELYSIS carbon-free primary aluminium from Canada under the agreement. Rio Tinto’s carbon-free aluminium...

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Novelis Plans New Automotive Aluminium Recycling Plant For SW Kentucky

Atlanta’s rolled aluminium firm Novelis announced plans yesterday to build a $365 million automotive recycling center outside of Clarksville, Tennessee. Novelis’s new plant in Guthrie, Kentucky will expand its closed-loop recycling operations by reclaiming aluminium from vehicles at the end of their useful lives and aluminium scrap leftover from automotive production and make it reusable […]

AMAG To Supply ASI-Certified Sustainable Aluminium To Audi For A6 Avant

European cast and rolled aluminium supplier AMAG Austria Metall AG announced this week that it has been chosen to supply German automaker Audi AG with certified sustainable aluminium for use in its A6 Avant luxury performance wagon. In a press release the firm said its inaugural run of Aluminium Stewardship Initiative-certified sustainable aluminium to Audi’s […]

Trio Of Constellium Automotive Aluminium Plants Awarded ASI Certification

European value-added aluminium firm Constellium NV announced yesterday the certification of its operations in Gottmadingen, Dahenfeld, and Singen, Germany against the Aluminium Stewardship Initiative’s (ASI) Chain of Custody Standards. The three plants supply advanced aluminium parts to the European automotive market. The Gottmadingen and Dahenfeld operations produce aluminium structural components, while the Singen plant produces […]