The Aluminum Extruders Council (AEC) was selected among 38 organizations across the U.S. to receive grant funding from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). The funding will support the AEC’s project to significantly increase the availability, quality, and granularity of Environmental Product Declarations (EPDs) for aluminum extrusion products. “Selection of our grant application is a […]
By Geoff Scamans, BCAST at Brunel University London and Innoval Technology. Vehicles must become inherently more efficient and lightweight if automotive OEMs are to meet global emissions targets. The implementation of aluminum has helped move OEMs toward this goal, and as a result, there has been significant growth in aluminum intensive vehicles (AIVs) over the […]
By Curt Wells and Paul O’Connor, The Aluminum Association. Aluminum recycling provides significant societal environmental benefit in terms of landfilled waste reduction and the energy consumption/emissions avoided as compared to aluminum produced from virgin ore. However, aluminum recycling also generates waste products and these are referred to as secondary aluminum processing wastes, which are comprised […]
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the National Highway Transportation Safety Administration (NHTSA) jointly finalized a new rule that requires medium and heavy-duty trucks to improve fuel efficiency up to 25% by 2027 in an effort to cut greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from the nation’s freight transportation activities. The final standards are expected to lower CO2 […]
