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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Hydrova: Turning Dross into New Value
“Aluminum recycling is essential for sustainability,” says Andrew Stein, CEO of TST. “It saves over 95 per cent of the energy to recycle aluminium versus creating new primary aluminium. However, the process of melting aluminium scrap creates dross and salt cake that is difficult to recycle without...
Building Sustainable Supply Chain in RUSAL
The sustainable development strategy of the RUSAL United Company aims at making, by decoupling our business growth from the environmental footprint, sustainability affordable across the entire aluminium value chain and creating a new class of assets in the non-ferrous metal sector. This means...
Paving the Path Ahead ‘For a Better Tomorrow’
Climate change around the world is causing great catastrophes, with no continent left untouched. The heatwaves, droughts, typhoons, and hurricanes are causing mass destruction around the world with disasters such as the heatwave in the UK, the West’s water crisis, hurricane Ian in the US, and many...
2023 – ASI’s Strategy on a Page
ASI was incorporated in 2015, making 2023 the ninth year of our collective journey. We are proud now to number 275 ASI Members across our 6 membership classes. There have been 238 ASI Certificates issued to certifying Members for both Performance and Chain of Custody. But what is the direction and...
AlCircle working to shape a greener future by reducing the carbon footprint
Green, carbon footprint, energy optimization, net-zero are currently key topics across meeting rooms in most industries, particularly in our aluminium sector. While a lot of great dialogue and action has been happening in the recent past, AlCircle started to build one of many roads towards...
Grain refiner specialist advances sustainable manufacturing by closing the loop in the production process
Leading grain refiner specialist MQP – which is set to present new technical research at TMS 2023 in the US this month – has committed to the advancement of sustainable manufacturing by making the production of its super-efficient Optifine 5:1 125 a ‘closed loop’ process. John Courtenay, Chairman...
“EEG strongly believes that recycling is one of the best ways to reduce the carbon footprint of the country in terms of consumption and production of materials.” Habiba Al Mar’ashi, Co-founder and Chairperson of Emirates Environmental Group (EEG)
Mrs Habiba Hassan Sultan Al Mar’ashi Al Hashimi is the Co-founder and Chairperson of Emirates Environmental Group (EEG), a pioneering non-government organisation established in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) in 1991. She guided EEG to become the first environmental NGO in the world to receive ISO...
“The Engitec proprietary technology for the secondary aluminium industry is the STE process for treating aluminium salt slag. The process is suitable for large or small productions and can be installed directly at the aluminium recyclers’ site,” Carmelo Maria Brocato, Commercial & Marketing Director, Engitec Technologies S.p.A
AlCircle: Please tell us about the functionalities of your technologies used for recovering aluminium scrap. Do they aid in reducing carbon emissions? Mr Carmelo Maria Brocato: Since the day of its foundation – sometime in 1998 – Engitec Technologies has dedicated its research to technologies...
“Australia’s alumina refineries are currently undertaking a range of decarbonisation studies in conjunction with Government agencies,” Marghanita Johnson, CEO of the Australian Aluminium Council
Marghanita Johnson has been the Chief Executive Officer of the Australian Aluminium Council since 2019. She has over 25 years of experience in the Australian mining and manufacturing sectors, predominantly within the aluminium industry. Earlier, she led government engagement and advocacy on behalf...
“Aluminium is a critical enabler of sustainable economic development,” Miles Prosser, Secretary General at IAI
Miles Prosser heads the International Aluminium Institute and is the key spokesperson. In addition to overall co-ordination of the IAI work program and governance issues, he also manages the work programme of the Communications & Promotions Committee. Let us hear from him on green initiatives in...
“Rio Tinto is extremely proud of its ability to produce some of the highest quality, lowest-carbon footprint aluminium,” Paramita Das, Head of Metals and Minerals, Marketing and ESG at Rio Tinto
Paramita Das is a global executive with extensive experience in the commodities segment (metal, oil and gas). She leads marketing for metals and minerals globally and the establishment of a more ESG-centric approach in the Atlantic region. Prior to her work in the marketing and development space,...
“The main goal of the GreenAlum project is the development of innovative technologies in the aluminium industry and machine tool building,” Sergey Kidakov, Founder, GreenAlum
Sergey Kidakov holds a degree in engineering specializing in railways and automobiles. Additionally, he has a higher education degree in Information Technology (IT) in communication and telecommunications. His experience includes supporting and developing IT startups, and he has been solving...
Alcoa to install steam run MVR module in its Australian alumina refinery saving excess energy usage
After a feasibility study approved its potential outcomes, USA-based aluminium giant Alcoa is about to set up a steam recycling technology or MVR module focused on reducing emissions. As early as 2021, Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA) allotted $11.3 million to run a feasibility study...
Axilone sensing sustainability demand deploys new aluminium packaging plant
Attracted by the swiftly evolving luxury beauty brands and its customers' detectable favouritism towards the infinitely recyclable non-ferrous metal aluminium, Axilone has decided to extensively optimise its production lines at the Sant Pere de Torelló plant, situated in Catalonia, Spain. The...
Oracle enters MoU supplying 50,000 tonnes of green hydrogen to EGA from its Pakistani project
Oracle Power PLC, a successful producer of green hydrogen, has agreed upon a Memorandum of Understanding through its Joint Venture Oracle Energy Limited for supplying 50,000 tonnes of green hydrogen to Emirates Global Aluminium PJSC (EGA). This MoU between EGA and Oracle Energy will ensure the...
Indonesia’s PT Adaro in funding crisis for $2bn aluminium project; faces “greenwashing” accusation
The Indonesian leader of coal-related operations, Adaro Energy, is toiling hard to collect enough funding for the actualisation of its US$2 billion aluminium project since environmentalists worldwide have started to accuse the firm and its partner, Hyundai of “greenwashing”. The Indonesian...
Alcoa to resume operations at its San Ciprián aluminium smelter by 2024
The global industry leader in aluminium, alumina and bauxite, Alcoa Corporation, announced that most of the workers at its San Ciprián complex in Spain had consented an upgraded plan to reactivate the aluminium smelter in 2024. Alcoa announced a two-year hiatus in December 2021 to focus on...
Qatar Aluminium Manufacturing Company reports a record net profit of QR919 million for 2022
On Friday, February 3, Qatar Aluminium Manufacturing Company, a Qatari Public Shareholding Company, popularly known as QAMCO, announced its financial result for 2022 ended December 31, reporting a record net profit of QR919 million, up by 10.13 per cent from QR 834.5 million in 2021. The company’s...
