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...
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Alba wins prestigious International Green Apple Awards 2014
Aluminium Bahrain B.S.C. (Alba), a leading aluminium producer in the world, announced today that it has been named a winner in the Environmental Best Practice category of the prestigious International Green Apple Awards 2014. This win brings international recognition to Alba’s commitment towards...
Showa Denko ups high-purity aluminum foils capacity in China
Showa Denko (SDK) has decided to expand its capacity to produce high-purity aluminum foils for aluminum electrolytic capacitors in China. It will increase productive capacity of Showa Denko Aluminum (Nangtong) (SDAN) from 400 tons a month at present to 600 tons a month. SDK plans to start operation...
Aluminium boxes and containers for the offshore industry
There is increasing scientific evidence that human activity is negatively impacting the environment. The political climate also is changing. ln addition, how companies view environmental issues is emerging as a component of a healthy "bottom line." Slowly, but with ever-increasing momentum,...
Chinook partners with European Metal Recycling to develop recycling waste energy-plant
Chinook has partnered with European Metal Recycling to develop a world-leading recycling and energy-from-waste plant, now commissioning in Oldbury, West Midlands. The plant, which has a negative carbon footprint of more than 57,000 tonnes of CO2 equivalent a year, is the first of three being...
CEWEP: EU recycling target deadline of 2025 or 2030 is a lost opportunity
The Confederation of European Waste-to-Energy Plants (CEWEP) embraces the Commission’s ambition to phase out landfilling of recyclable and recoverable waste and urges the decision makers to promote quality recycling. Waste-to-energy is complementary to quality recycling, helping to achieve a clean...
Aditya Aluminium powers Odisha villages with solar lights
Although the government has been making conscious efforts to reach electricity to more people in rural areas, it has failed to make as much impact as it would have liked. Rural areas usually suffer on account of poor and underdeveloped transmission infrastructure and adequate distribution capacity...
MPs lobby Coalition to exempt aluminium from Renewable energy target
Nearly half of the Coalition's backbenchers in the lower house have called on the Abbott government to grant the aluminium industry a full exemption from the renewable energy target (RET). The letter – understood to have been signed by 25 Coalition lower house MPs – argued the government could...
Federal Government under internal pressure to scrap Renewable Energy Target costs for aluminium industry
More than a quarter of the Federal Government's lower house MPs have signed a petition calling for aluminium production to be exempt from the Renewable Energy Target. Twenty-five Coalition backbenchers have signed the letter, which has been sent to Industry Minister Ian Macfarlane and Environment...
Hydro signs new long-term power contract for Norwegian aluminium portfolio
Norwegian aluminium company Norsk Hydro ASA has signed a long-term power contract with Norwegian renewable energy producer Agder Energi AS, for annual supply of 0.5 terawatt hours (TWh) over 10 years from 2021 to 2030. Hydro has, including the above-mentioned contract, over the last weeks signed...
Norsk Hydro: Enova supports Hydro's technology pilot at Karmøy
Enova, a public enterprise which supports new energy and climate-related technology development, has decided to contribute NOK 1.5 billion toward Hydro's full scale next-generation electrolysis pilot project at Karmøy, on the west coast of Norway. This contribution is subject to approval by the...
Israeli-Canadian aluminium-air battery goes 1000 miles
A new “aluminum-air” battery developed by Israel-based Phinergy and Alcoa Canada can more than triple the distance electric cars can travel. The battery, shown to the public in Montreal this week, is made of panels that are mostly made of aluminum. By using the new battery on an "ordinary car"...
Novelis study reveals 70% of consumers would consider switching to environmentally sustainable brands
According to a recent study undertaken by Forum for the Future and made by Novelis, the aluminium recycler has found 70% of consumers would want to switch brands if one brand is showing more environmental credentials. The study was conducted with the help of Madano Partnership, the marketing...
Qatalum’s 2013 Sustainability Report highlights social and environmental strategic innovations
Qatalum has released its annual 2013 Sustainability Report, providing insight, analysis and strategic planning with respect to the company’s economic, social and environmental performance – and the ways Qatalum is taking action to integrate sustainability within its operations. Priding itself as...
Hydro signs new long-term power contract for Norwegian aluminium portfolio
Norwegian aluminium company Norsk Hydro ASA has signed a long-term power contract with Norwegian renewable energy producer Lyse Energi AS for annual supply of 0.7 terawatt hours (TWh) over 10 years from 2021. Hydro signed a similar contract with Agder Energi AS last week, for an annual supply of 1...
Alba unveils its first “green” building
Aluminium Bahrain B.S.C. (Alba), one of the world’s leading smelters, made a big step towards a greener environment with the inauguration of it’s first-ever “green “amenity building. The single story amenity building, catering mainly to Power Station 3 & 4 employees, incorporates many green...
Nespresso launches compostable collection bag for coffee capsule recycling
Made from paper-based materials with a biopolymer coating, a new collection bag for Nespresso allows Austrian customers to conveniently gather coffee capsules for recycling. Nespresso has introduced a collection and recycling system for used aluminium capsules as part of the Nespresso...
Hydro signs long-term power contract for Norwegian aluminium portfolio
Norwegian aluminium company Norsk Hydro ASA has signed a long-term power contract with Norwegian renewable energy producer Agder Energi AS for power supplies to Hydro's aluminium plants in Norway. The Power Purchase Agreement (PPA) between Hydro's fully owned subsidiary Hydro Energi AS and Agder...
Alcoa reports safest, most environmentally efficient year on record; delivers breakthrough sustainability innovations
Achievements Highlighted in Newly Released 2013 Sustainability Report 2013 Sustainability Report Highlights • Safest year on record, with 30 percent reduction in workplace injury rate • Reduced greenhouse gas emissions intensity by 25.5 percent from the 2005 baseline, and lowered absolute emissions...
