By Dr. Anne Deacon Juhl, AluConsult and AnodizingSchool, and Amelie Haupt, Green Marketing Specialist. The aluminum industry plays a pivotal role in sustainable change, as the lightweight metal is a critical component for many sectors such as transportation, building materials, and consumer goods. Although the extraction of bauxite comes with significant labor costs and environmental […]
AMAG Austria Metall AG signed a long-term power purchase agreement (PPA) with ImWind, a wind power pioneer from Lower Austria. The agreement secures clean green electricity for AMAG’s headquarters in Ranshofen, Upper Austria, for the next 15 years, covering 20% of its current annual electricity requirement. “The groundbreaking partnership between AMAG and ImWind is a […]
Hydro plans to invest NOK 180 million (US$16.6 million) in a state-of-the-art scrap sorting facility at the recycling plant in Wrexham, U.K. The plant will have the capacity to source and sort over 30,000 tonnes of aluminum scrap annually, enough aluminum for over 100,000 electric vehicles. The investment will also create 16 new local jobs. […]
Vista Metals completed the construction of a seventh aluminum casthouse at its facility in Adairsville, Georgia. This is a significant milestone in the company’s ongoing $100 million long-range capital plan and represents the second phase of the plan. The new casthouse in Georgia includes the installation of melting furnaces, homogenizing ovens, and support equipment at […]
Magrathea, a technology company based in California, signed a sustainable supply agreement with Cargill, one of the world’s leading salt producers. This agreement will support Magrathea’s development of its innovative electrolytic technology for the production of carbon neutral magnesium metal from seawater and brine. “In partnership with Cargill, we will deliver on our promise of […]
Trimet Aluminium SE is completing the expansion of its recycling plant in Gelsenkirchen, Germany. The project will increase production capacity at the site, as well as significantly reducing CO2 emissions by updating the energy supply. This will enable the company to achieve improved eco-balances in the aluminum alloys it produces from recycled scrap, benefiting the […]
By Lynn Brown, Long Point Associates, and Shane Tredup, Custom Aluminum Products and the AEC Sustainability Team Over the past 6-12 months, aluminum extruders have reported substantial growth in the number and frequency of requests for environmental data from customers, including the carbon footprint of their products, the extruders GHG Protocol Scope 1, Scope 2 […]
Alumtek Minerals (AM), based in Australia, recently completed research and development on bauxite residue waste, commonly known as red mud, which has resulted in the development of a technology to extract critical raw materials. Following a collaboration with Cement Australia, AM developed a supplementary cementitious material (SCM) that meets the stringent Australian Standard AS3582.4 and has […]
