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...
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Rio Tinto Plans US$1.1 Billion Expansion At Complexe Jonquière In Quebec
Anglo-Australian mining giant Rio Tinto Group announced a US$1.1 billion (CAN$1.4 billion) investment in expanding its Complexe Jonquière aluminium smelter in Quebec. The investment will involve modernizing the AP60 aluminium smelter with new low-carbon aluminium smelting equipment. The improvements to the AP60...
Rio Tinto And Volvo Partner On Low-Carbon Aluminium Supply Agreement
Anglo-Australian mining giant Rio Tinto Group and Sweden’s Volvo Group have signed an agreement to establish a partnership for the...
Rio Tinto and Ford To Collaborate On Stronger Supply Of Low-Carbon Aluminium And Other Sustainable Materials
Anglo-Australian metals titan Rio Tinto Group and American automaker Ford Motor Company have partnered to work together on developing more...
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Rio Tinto To Install 16 New Low-Carbon Aluminium Smelting Pots At Quebec Smelter
Anglo-Australian mining giant Rio Tinto Group will invest US$87 million at its Saguenay-Lac-Saint-Jean aluminium smelter to boost its low-carbon aluminium output. The investment will come in the form of sixteen new low-carbon aluminium smelting cells at the AP60 smelter. The sixteen new cells will boost the plant’s nameplate capacity by 26.5 thousand metric tons per […]
Alcoa Unveils Roadmap To Sustainable Aluminium
Aluminium pioneer Alcoa Corporation announced this week a technological plan that it hopes will lead the aluminium industry into more sustainably producing the metal in the future. The firm says its “technological roadmap” are capable of not only moving the aluminium industry into wider sustainability, but are also economically beneficial in the coming low-carbon future. […]
ELYSIS Zero-Carbon Aluminium Produced In Commercial-Sized Cells At Quebec Research Center
Anglo-Australian mining giant Rio Tinto Group said this week that the zero-carbon aluminium offering ELYSIS has progressed to scaling up its production method to the size of small industrial cells of the size employed by the aluminium industry today. The low-carbon aluminium product, which is the result of a partnership between Rio Tinto and Alcoa, […]
Alcoa Pledges To Achieve Net-Zero Greenhouse Gas Emissions By 2050
American aluminium pioneer Alcoa Corporation announced this week its intention to reach net-zero greenhouse gas emissions along the entirety of its operations by 2050. The firm said that the push to neutralize both direct and indirect GHG emissions dovetails with its overall goal of operating in a more sustainable manner. Alcoa also notes that the […]
ELYSIS Breaks Ground On Commercial Prototype Of Inert Anode Cells At Quebec Aluminium Plant
Alcoa Corporation and Rio Tinto Group joint venture ELYSIS commenced construction of its first commercial-scale prototype cells utilizing inert anode technology in Saguenay-Lac-Saint-Jean, Quebec this week. The prototype cells now under construction will utilize an electrical current of 450 kA, which is comparable to potlines at major aluminium smelters around the world. However, instead of […]
Biden Infrastructure Bill A Big Boon To Aluminium Industry: Norsk Hydro VP Mike Stier
Earlier this month the United States Congress passed into law President Joe Biden’s US$1.2 trillion infrastructure package. The Investing in a New Vision for the Environment and Surface Transportation in America Act (or the INVEST in America Act) will allocate US$550 billion ...
The Net-Zero Shift Starts With Low Carbon Aluminium
2020 was supposed to be “year of climate action”, with the Glasgow COP26 acting as a major milestone for both ...
Aluminium at the LME Week – Key Takeaways
Between October 28 and November 1st, London hosted the traditional London Metals Exchange (LME) Week gathering of analysts, brokers, traders ...
Aluminium Market Oversupplied, Demand Growth Flat
Base metals prices reacted positively to the progress registered in the latest round of US – China trade talks in ...
