Rio Tinto Joins First Movers Coalition To Aid In Achieving Zero-Carbon Aluminium
Anglo-Australian mining giant Rio Tinto Group said last week it will join the First Movers Coalition in an effort at...
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ALFED Announces Two New Zero-Carbon Aluminium Initiatives
The Aluminium Federation (ALFED) launched two new member initiatives aimed at aiding the aluminium sector in its transition to Net Zero during the first-ever EnvironmentAl Strategy Day last week. ALFED said the initiatives will improve knowledge of the environmental, social and governance...
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...
Novelis Begins Net Zero Carbon Aluminium Research Lab In Switzerland
Atlanta’s rolled aluminium firm Novelis announced an agreement to collaborate with Swiss innovation and research hub HES-SO Valais-Wallis in collaboration...
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ELYSIS To Install Commercial-Sized Inert Anode Prototype Cells At Rio Tinto’s Alma Aluminium Smelter
Low-carbon aluminium smelting joint venture ELYSIS will be installing its revolutionary new technology in Rio Tinto’s aluminium smelter at Saguenay-Lac-Saint-Jean, Quebec, according to an announcement made yesterday by the firm. ELYSIS said in a press release that it plans to install and demonstrate its inert anode technology at the plant, which will be of a […]
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 […]
En+ Commits To Zero GHG Emissions By 2050
Anglo-Russian energy and metals company En+ Group IPJSC announced yesterday its intention to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions by at least 35 percent by 2030 and net zero by 2050. The firm’s board of directors signed off on the goal earlier this week and created a task force led by Chief Operating Officer Vyacheslav Solomin […]
Aluminium Sector Achieving Zero Emissions A “Big Task”: IAI Secretary General
Though the industry has made significant progress toward it, the goal of net-zero emissions will continue to be “challenging” for the aluminium sector. Such is the opinion of the International Aluminum Institute’s secretary general Miles Prosser. In an interview with S&P Global Platts, Prosser said the Paris Agreement’s goal of achieving net-zero carbon emissions over […]
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 ...
