Gränges Cut Carbon Emissions By 8 Percent In 2020
Swedish rolled aluminium firm Gränges AB relayed the sustainability achievements it accomplished last year yesterday, including significantly reducing its total...
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Norsk Hydro Plans Expansion Of Its On-Site Aluminium Recycling Program
Norwegian aluminium producer Norsk Hydro ASA announced last week its plans to expand a program of directly recycling aluminium from its plants, which it hopes will further reduce its low carbon footprint and increase production by allowing for use of post-consumer aluminium...
Alupro Launches New Website To Promote Recycling In The United Kingdom And Beyond
The UK Aluminium Packaging Recycling Organisation (Alupro) announced yesterday the debut of a new website to educate British consumers and...
Constellium Plans Increase Of Aluminium Recycling Capacity By 60k Metric Tons Per Annum In Europe
European value-added aluminium firm Constellium NV announced last week a new project to increase its aluminium recycling capacity on the...
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Norsk Hydro Begins Pilot Project For New Low-Energy Aluminium and Silicon Recycling Technology
Norwegian aluminium producer Norsk Hydro ASA announced yesterday a project with circular economy start-up Nuvosil to develop a new method for recycling aluminium and silicon that could cut processing costs and energy consumption by up to 90 percent. Hydro says the foundation for this new technology is a unit for screw extrusion of metal materials. […]
Strike At Constellium Aluminium Can Recycling Plant In Alabama Continues
A strike is currently underway at Constellium’s aluminium used beverage containers (UBCs) consuming mill in Muscle Shoals. According to a press release, about 200 members of United Steelworkers (USW) Local 200 walked off the job on December 15 due to an inability of management and labor to come to an accord on a contract at […]
GFG To Double Lochaber Smelter’s Capacity With Addition Of Aluminium Recycling Plant
Sanjeev Gupta’s GFG Alliance said last week it is preparing to invest £94 million in the construction of a new aluminium recycling facility in Scotland at its existing aluminium smelter at Lochaber. Local media said the investment would also include a doubling of the aluminium smelter’s nameplate capacity, bringing it to 80 thousand metric tons […]
Audi Hungaria To Launch Aluminium Closed Loop Project Next Year
Automaker Audi Hungaria Zrt. announced on Friday the implementation of a project to develop an aluminium closed loop that would begin next year. The firm uses 38 thousand metric tons of aluminium per year in automobile production. Noting the energy-intensive nature of aluminium production, Audi Hungaria attempts to maximize energy efficiency by utilizing a recycling […]
Regal Metal To Build Aluminium Recycling And Secondary Plant In Shanxi
The People’s Republic of China’s Regal Metal announced this week that it plans to build an aluminium-recycling plant with a nameplate capacity of 300 thousand metric tons in Shanxi province. The project is a bid by Regal to revitalize old and abandoned asset in the firm’s portfolio. The plan, which has the support of the […]
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 businesses and policymakers to accelerate decarbonization efforts. However, with COVID-19 disrupting lives and economies in an unprecedented manner, countries across the globe ...
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 ...
Aluminium of Greece (AOG): is the Pechiney spirit still alive?
Between September 24-25, FastmarketsMB organized its annual aluminium conference in Athens. A day before the conference, in accordance with an ...
