Alcoa and Rio Tinto Announce Breakthrough Carbon-Free Aluminium Smelting Process
Calling the breakthrough “the most significant innovation in the aluminium industry in more than a century,” American smelter Alcoa Corp...
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Novelis Cuts Greenhouse Gas Emissions By 5 Percent in FY 2018
Atlanta’s rolled and recycled aluminium firm Novelis Inc. released its Fiscal Year 2018 sustainability report yesterday. Among other issues, the report highlighted the firm’s increase of recycled aluminium by 2 percent year on year to a total of 57 percent of the...
Study: Aluminium Cans Release Fewer Greenhouse Gases Over Their Service Life than Glass, Plastic
According to a newly-released study conducted by ICF International for the Aluminum Association, the amount of greenhouse gases (GHG) emitted...
Kaiser Aluminum Expresses Cautious Optimism Over Latest Draft of Washington State Clean-Air Rule
American aluminium producer Kaiser Aluminum says it is cautiously optimistic regarding a new proposal in the state of Washington for...
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European Commission: New Aluminium Technology Could Make Production Cleaner, More Efficient
Utilizing new technology now under development could reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) production in the aluminium industry by two-thirds and energy consumption by over one-fifth in 2050 according to a report released yesterday by the European Commission’s Joint Research Centre. Achievable reductions for primary aluminium production in the intervening years may be higher, according to the […]
Zhongwang Fake Semis Prosecution May Slam The Door On Key Routes For U.S. Import Duty Avoidance
The global aluminium market has been watching the trials and travails of Chinese behemoth Zhongwang with intense interest for the past few weeks after the company and its founder Liu Zhongtian were brought up on criminal charges by the United States federal ...
Aluminium Prices Under Double Pressure: Trade Wars and Chinese Exports
Base metals prices tumbled to their lowest in several weeks at the start of August, after U.S. President Donald Trump ...
Dirty Metal – China’s Troublesome Tether Between Coal And Aluminium
The year 2019 has been a red-letter year for the aluminium sector in the People’s Republic of China. Despite trade ...
Is Rio Tinto’s ISAL smelter a bargain or a smart investment?
At least three companies (including Swiss commodity trader Glencore and German Trimet Aluminium) have expressed interest in buying Rio Tinto’s ...
