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Alcoa To Provide Erbslöh Aluminium With EcoLum Low-Carbon Aluminium

Alcoa To Provide Erbslöh Aluminium With EcoLum Low-Carbon Aluminium

Pittsburgh aluminium pioneer Alcoa Corporation announced a deal with Germany’s Erbslöh Aluminium GmbH to supply its affiliate WKW Extrusion with its low-carbon brand of aluminium. WKW plans to use Alcoa’s EcoLum aluminium in its own line of sustainable semi-fabricated aluminium products. Alcoa’s...

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Norsk Hydro To Increase Hydrogen Power Use At Norwegian Plants

Norwegian aluminium producer Norsk Hydro ASA said last week that it is exploring opportunities to develop its hydrogen facilities in order to offer renewable energy sources to third parties as well as enhancing its capabilities for producing low-carbon aluminium. Hysdro’s president and CEO Hilde Merete Aasheim said in a press release that the opportunity for […]

Novelis Pledges To Achieve Carbon Neutrality By 2050

Atlanta’s rolled aluminium firm Novelis announced earlier this week its intention to become a net carbon-neutral company by mid-century and to reduce its carbon footprint by 30 percent over the next five years. The firm said in a press release that it also has plans to become a fully circular business, but it did not […]

Alcoa To Provide Low- And Zero-Carbon Aluminium For Audi Electric Vehicle Wheels

Pittsburgh aluminium pioneer Alcoa Corporation announced last week that it has been chose by German automaker Audi AG to supply sustainable aluminium wheels for its e-tron GT electric vehicle. Alcoa said it will be supplying low-carbon aluminium to RONAL Group, who will be using both low-carbon and zero-carbon aluminium products from the smelter. Tim Reyes, […]

Platts To Launch Low-Carbon Aluminium Price Assessments In April

S&P Global Platts said on Friday it would begin a service to provide pricing assessments for low-carbon aluminium next month. Platts’ move to offer low-carbon aluminium pricing is in stark contrast to the London Metal Exchange. The LME declined calls for such, choosing instead to institute a digital register for carbon details and an online […]

Norsk Hydro And DNV GL Collaborate On Blockchain Product Documentation System For Low-Carbon Aluminium Offerings

Norwegian aluminium producer Norsk Hydro ASA and independent global assurance provider DNV GL announced a partnership this week to develop a blockchain system for documenting product representations regarding their low-carbon aluminium products. Hydro cited the growing demand for more sustainable products, which consequently increases the desire for accurate representations regarding the product’s origins and production. […]