Norsk Hydro To Boost Aluminium Recycling Capacity By Half At Sjunnen
Norwegian aluminium firm Norsk Hydro ASA announced this week plans to invest €11.3 million to increase the aluminium recycling capability...
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Ball Corporation Breaks Ground On Brazil’s First Aluminium Circular Economy Lab
Earlier this week, Colorado’s Ball Corporation revealed plans to build the first circular economy lab in Brazil on an island dedicated to sustainable tourism. Per the firm, the VADELATA project will be built on Fernando de Noronha and will provide the island...
Novelis Completes US$150 MM Expansion Of Brazilian Aluminium Plant
Atlanta’s rolled aluminium firm Novelis announced the completion of its US$150 million expansion of its aluminium rolling and recycling capacity...
Norsk Hydro Inks Agreement On Aluminium Recycling Plant In SW Michigan
Norwegian aluminium producer Norsk Hydro ASA announced that its subsidiary Hydro Aluminium Metal has signed a Letter of Intent (LoI)...
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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 scrap as well. The initiative would enhance its already low carbon per unit […]
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 carbon emissions and an increase in adoption of renewable energy. Gränges said on Thursday that 2020 saw the company cut total carbon emissions by 8 percent from 2019 levels and 18 percent from 2017 baseline […]
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 global aluminium users of the significant advantages of recycling aluminium. “Recycle Aluminium” will host a wide variety of content extolling the virtues of aluminium recycling. With over 12 billion consumables within aluminium containers are sold […]
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 continent by 60 thousand metric tons per annum, bumping its aluminium recycling capacity that is already the highest in Europe. Constellium did not reveal a cost for the project, but it does expect to have […]
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. […]
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 ...
