India's hidden urban mines are going to landfills: Why e-waste needs a second life
As smartphones, laptops, televisions, electric vehicles, and household appliances become an integral part of modern life, electronic waste (e-waste) is emerging as one of the world's fastest-growing waste streams. Yet, every discarded electronic device contains more than just obsolete technology—it...
Coal-heavy Australian aluminium vs renewables-led New Zealand: How Oceania is balancing decarbonisation
Oceania’s primary aluminium industry is facing a fragmented energy transition. While Australia, the leading aluminium producer of the continent, has abundant renewable resources and a well-established aluminium value chain, its smelters remain significantly more dependent on fossil-fuel-based...
Grow with
AL Circle
Stern uses Hydro’s REDUXA aluminium in its conservatories
Stern, a producer of conservatories and patio covers in Germany, has selected Hydro REDUXA for its conservatories in order to lower the CO2 emissions. Hydro has supplied aluminium extrusions from its Drunen, Offenburg and Hoogezand plants. Hydro REDUXA, along with Hydro’s recycled aluminium range...
“The certification from ASI Performance Standard is confirming our efforts and goes hand in hand with Hydro’s ambitions of lifting profitability and driving sustainability” - Hilde Merete Aasheim, President and Chief Executive Officer, Hydro
Norsk Hydro ASA is a Norwegian aluminium and renewable energy company, headquartered in Oslo. It is one of the largest aluminium companies worldwide, with operations across 50 countries. Starting from bauxite and alumina, Hydro produces low-carbon aluminium, extruded profiles, building systems,...
Century Aluminum rolls out fresh line of low-carbon aluminium products
Century Aluminium Company with its aluminium smelter in Grundartangi, Iceland, has made public of its rollout for Natur-Al™ low-carbon aluminium products. Natur-Al™ aluminium products are manufactured at the ASI-certified Norðurál Grundartangi aluminium plant in Iceland, facilitating energy from...
Rio Tinto bargains for cheaper power supply for its Iceland Aluminium smelter
Rio Tinto made public that it might have to shut down its aluminium smelter in Iceland (ISAL) if the country’s state-controlled energy supplier does not deliver a cheaper deal. The warning again indicates the tough market aluminium producers around the world are facing, as the demand fades and...
Century Aluminum Company’s Grundartangi Iceland aluminium smelter certified against ASI Performance Standard
Century Aluminium’s Grundartangi Iceland aluminium smelter has been certified against Aluminium Stewardship Initiative’s (ASI) Performance Standard. The facility’s operations comprise an aluminium smelter and casthouse that use hydroelectric and geothermal energy. Fiona Solomon, Chief Executive...
Shanghai Shenhuo Aluminium Foil Co., Ltd achieves Certification against ASI Chain of Custody Standard
Shanghai Shenhuo Aluminium Foil Co., Ltd’s aluminium production facility has been certified against Aluminium Stewardship Initiative’s Chain of Custody Standard. The certification includes the manufacture of aluminium and aluminium alloy foils. The foil facility was also certified to the ASI...
Europe needs to shield and encourage a Greener, Circular and Innovative Aluminium value chain
The European Commission released the long-awaited Green Deal last December, which is presented as the EU’s new growth strategy for a climate-neutral, competitive, circular and socially just economy by mid-century. The aluminium industry is prepared to contribute to the intense transformation which...
China's new energy vehicle sales growth rate sharply dropped to 5.1% in 2019, shows CPCA
China in 2019 saw a sharp fall in the growth of new energy vehicle sales, revealed the China Passenger Car Association (CPCA). The reason for this has been attributed to Beijing’s subsidy cut to wean the sector off government support. On Thursday, January 9, CPCA data showed new energy passenger...
Dixon designs a 70-metre yacht concept featuring an aluminium alloy superstructure
Dixon Yacht Design has reportedly designed the concept of a 70-metre yacht - Project NewDawn, in a way that it offers effortless sailing performance with the interior comfort conventionally found on motor yachts. To offer maximum sailing potential with minimal sailing effort, the yacht has easy to...
Weiqiao begins the construction of its aluminium smelting and hydropower project in Yunnan
According to a recent report from Shanghai Metals Market, Shandong Weiqiao Pioneering, on Wednesday, December 18, began the construction of 2 million tonnes per year aluminium smelting and hydropower project in Southwest China’s Yunnan province. Ground-breaking ceremony of the integrated project...
Hydro signs new USD 1,600 million credit facility with margin linked to greenhouse gas emission target
Norsk Hydro on December 12, 2019, signed a USD 1,600 million revolving multi-currency credit facility with margin linked to reduction target for greenhouse gas emissions. The revolving credit facility will be available for general corporate purposes. The facility carries a five-year tenor with two...
European Aluminium Industry to support EU Green Deal: European Aluminium
The European aluminium industry is well-equipped to support the European Green Deal announced by the EU on November 11. European Aluminium, the ambassador of the industry said in a press release that the aluminium industry has already designed a bold strategy that can cut CO2 emissions in primary...
GFG Alliance celebrates 90th anniversary of Lochaber aluminium smelter
GFG Alliance celebrated the 90th anniversary of its Lochaber hydro-electric plant and aluminium smelter. Past and present employees of the UK’s only aluminium factory gathered in Fort William to celebrate the milestone occasion. The facility produces up to 50,000 tonnes of aluminium annually,...
China’s new energy vehicle sales slumped in November by 41.7% Y-o-Y
China’s new energy vehicle (NEV) sales in November fell year-on-year by 41.7 per cent to 79,000 units, as reported by the China Passenger Car Association (CPCA) on Monday, December 9. This marks the fifth consecutive month of decline in new energy vehicle sales since the sharp cut on NEV subsidies...
Shandong Weiqiao to move 2.03 MT aluminium capacity from Shandong to hydro power rich Yunnan
A report from Shanghai Metals Market said that Shandong Weiqiao Aluminium and Electricity, a subsidiary of China Hongqiao Group, would move 2.03 million tonnes of capacity from Binzhou of east China’s Shandong province to south China’s Yunnan. The news was confirmed from an official notice on...
Tonstad wind farm to commence operation early 2019 to fuel aluminium production in Norway
The 208MW Tonstad wind farm project on the eastern side of Lake Sirdal, in Sirdal and Flekkefjord municipalities, in Southern Norway, is reportedly under construction. While the installation of the turbines has already started, fourteen are erected so far and six among them are electrified, which...
Dajcor Aluminum breaks ground on its fabrication plant in Perry County, Kentucky
Dajcor Aluminum is finally broke ground on its plant in Perry County in the U.S. state of Kentucky on November 2. Dajcor Aluminum, a Canada based manufacturer and supplier of extruded, fabricated/machined and anodized aluminium components and assemblies for automotive, renewable energy, medical...
Beijing plans to replace gas-powered taxis with electric cars, aiming at boosting NEV sales
Shanghai Metals Market reports that China is speeding up the development of new energy vehicles, as Beijing and other major cities have announced plans to replace gas-powered taxis with electric cars in the next few years, as part of an initiative to boost NEV sales and reduce pollution. The...
