The International Aluminium Institute (IAI) released the first comprehensive public study analyzing the recycling value chain for single-use beverage containers in five key markets. The data shows that today more than 70% of the material used in aluminum cans is recycled into new products — almost double that of glass (34%) and plastic (40%). Accordingly, […]
Altek Metal, headquartered in Esentepe, Istanbul, Turkey, received an 18 million euro joint investment from the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) and Garanti BBVA to build a new aluminum recycling casthouse with 50,000 ton per year capacity in Çerkezköy, Turkey. The main goal of this investment is to support business growth and improve […]
Emirates Global Aluminium (EGA) announced that it plans to build a 150,000 tonnes per year aluminum recycling facility, which will be the company’s first and also the largest of its kind in the UAE. EGA intends to market their recycled aluminum under the product name EternAL. The facility will process post-consumer aluminum scrap from the […]
Novelis Inc. plans to invest approximately $50 million to build a recycling center at its Ulsan Aluminum joint venture in South Korea. The expansion project will increase capacity to produce rolling ingot, as well as reduce carbon emissions. “This latest capital investment in recycling is another example of our company purpose of ‘Shaping a Sustainable […]
Hammerer Aluminum Industries (HAI) completed the installation of a new €4.5 million melting furnace at its facility in Santana, Romania. The new furnace expands its recycling and remelting capacity to 250,000 tons per year. The investment in a new furnace is in reaction to the high demand for aluminum lightweight products made from recycled material. […]
Novelis Inc. plans to invest $365 million to build a highly advanced recycling center for automotive in North America, built adjacent to its existing automotive finishing plant in Guthrie, Kentucky. The facility is expected to support the expansion of the company’s automotive closed-loop-recycling programs and reduce its carbon emissions by more than one million tons […]
Hydro is focused on sustainability, having set ambitious climate, environmental, and social targets — including the goal of achieving net-zero emissions by 2050. Currently, the company is on track to meet this goal, with the expectation of reducing its emissions 10% by 2025 and 30% by 2030 (from a 2018 baseline). One of Hydro’s main […]
Alcoa has developed a new, patented process for the purification of post-consumer aluminum scrap. This ASTREA™ process is designed to process low quality scrap (such as zorba, which is comprised of shredded aluminum and other nonferrous metals from automobiles) into an extremely high purity level equivalent to or surpassing P0101 aluminum alloys (containing only 0.1% […]
