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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End-user weekly recap: Goldi Solar announces US$600 million investment to increase capacity; Sainsbury switches to aluminium from plastic in creating own-label coffee pods
The end-user sector is where all the upstream components meet to form various utility products to be sold in the retail market. The Managing Director of the Gujarat-India headquartered Goldi Solar, Ishver Dholakiya, on September 26, announced an investment plan worth US$600 million by 2025 in order...
Primary aluminium recap: Falling aluminium demand causes Hydro to partially curtail production at its Karmøy facility; Australia's largest aluminium smelter plans to fast-track its decarbonization drive
The global primary aluminium segment witnessed a lot of events. To begin with, on Thursday, September 29, the global aluminium benchmark price saw a dramatic expansion of US$181 per tonne due to the ban on Russian supplies by the London Metal Exchange. As a result of traders' worries about supply...
KDB Capital forms alliance with Harvest Equity Partners raising US$90.31 million for DS Liquid stakes
KDB Capital, run by state lender Korea Development Bank has occupied an aluminium recycling company, DS Liquid, in collaboration with local private equity fund (PEF) Harvest Equity Partners in order to enhance its ESG portfolio. KDB, along with the newly established Harvest Equity firm, raised a...
Hydro Extrusions to source 100% green energy for making aluminium profiles in Sweden
Hydro wishes to entirely run its Swedish operations with 100 per cent locally produced power originating from renewable energy sources other than conventional fossil fuel. The company focuses on creating a sustainable future by transforming the energy input of its three aluminium extrusion plants...
India's leading quality solar PV module manufacturer plans to invest $600 million
On 26 th September 2022, the Managing Director of the Gujarat-India headquartered Goldi Solar, Ishver Dholakiya, said that India’s leading quality solar PV module manufacturer is planning to invest around $600 million (INR 5,000 crore) by 2025 to proliferate its module manufacturing capacity to 6...
Alba chairman kicks off the first concrete pour for its ambitious decarbonization project at PS5 Block 4
Aluminium Bahrain (Alba), the world's largest aluminium smelter ex-China, inaugurated its first concrete pour for the foundation of the Power Station 5 (PS5) Block 4 Project, kicking off the early work at the project's construction. The project is a part of Alba's ambitious decarbonisation...
Australia's largest aluminium smelter plans to fast-track its decarbonization drive
Tomago Aluminium, the largest aluminium smelter in Australia and New South Wales' biggest energy consumer, will speed up its decarbonisation drive and work with renewable energy producers to boost Hunter's clean energy transition. Developing opportunities for renewable power generation and energy...
'Mission Possible Partnership' decarbonization strategies hailed by global industry leaders
The Mission Possible Partnership (MPP) has attracted more than 200 industry leaders to support efforts to decarbonize some of the world's most challenging and carbon-intensive industries. More than 60 companies have endorsed new plans presented at New York Climate Week for producing near-zero...
Rio Tinto to join First Movers Coalition forum as a responsible aluminium company aiming to reach zero emission
On Tuesday, September 20, Rio Tinto announced that it would join the tribe of more than 50 companies to be a part of the First Movers Coalition forum, a global initiative to help commercialise zero-carbon technologies by channelising purchasing power and supply chains. Companies with a combined...
Collaboration between Silicon Ranch Corp. and SOLARCYCLE to provide recycled aluminium
Collaboration between Silicon Ranch Corp., a sizable independent power producer based in Nashville, Tennessee, and SOLARCYCLE, a tech-driven solar recycling platform, will recycle obsolete solar modules from Silicon Ranch projects using SOLARCYCLE's high-recovery recycling technology. The...
Turkey's VIG Metal Aluminium division marks 10 years of production
Vig Metal, which completed 10 years in 2022, increased its production capacity to 40,000 tonnes thanks to new investments, including annealing furnaces, a casting line with a production width of 1500 mm, and a new, high-tech cut-to-length line with a production width of 2000 mm. Since 2012, Vig...
Recycled aluminium recap: Romco Metals to expand output leaning towards green hydrogen production; Alutrade recovers 99% pure aluminium using X-TRACT™
Alutrade produced 99.9 per cent pure aluminium for secondary aluminium production using TOMRA's most advanced x-ray metals sorting apparatus, the X-TRACTTM. The UK-based aluminium recycling business used the powerful new sensor-based sorting system from TOMRA, X-TRACT, for the first time. The...
Primary weekly recap: Yunnan orders aluminium producers to reduce power usage in the coming weeks; Russia-Ukraine's geopolitical crisis may enhance Egyptalum's financial performance
According to sources, the Yunnan province in southwest China gave this week's directive to aluminium companies to use less energy. In addition to its captive power plant (CPP) at its Mahan facility, Hindalco Industries, the largest manufacturer of aluminium in India, started producing energy from a...
Downstream aluminium weekly: Elvalhalcor exploring ways to use LPG instead of fossil fuel for aluminium production; Alcoa develops production ready high strength aluminium alloys
This week the downstream sector has been alive with innovative incidents where, Greek aluminium and copper producer, Elvalhalcor, was found estimating the company’s crossover to liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) from fossil fuel (natural gas) to help de-escalate its power bill. To manufacture new...
Discarded PV cells a new medium for extracting aluminium and silver, say Leicester University researchers
By dissolving iron chloride and aluminium chloride in brines, researchers at the University of Leicester have created a brand-new technique for recovering aluminium and silver from discarded photovoltaic cells (PV cells) nearing the end of their useful lives. They claim that the inexpensive...
EU Critical Raw Materials Act, a positive step toward increasing European supply-side independence
The unveiling of a new Critical Raw Materials Act by European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen during the annual State of the Union Address was warmly received by European Aluminium. This trade group represents the aluminium value chain in Europe. The Association requests urgent help from...
ALFED reveals NET ZERO Report with a broader vision of sustainability in the UK aluminium market
The UK Aluminium Federation (ALFED) has announced a Net Zero Report, aiming to achieve the long-standing goal of decarbonisation, sustainability, and a circular economy. While its actions outlined in the early roadmap remain the same, the new report includes contributions and challenges from...
En+ Group’s 2021 Net Zero strategy results: Purchased 99% of low-carbon electricity and cut direct GHG emissions by 11.6%
En+ Group, the largest producer of low-carbon aluminium and biggest independent renewable energy generator, announced the first year results on Net Zero strategy goals. In 2021, En+ Group was Russia’s one of the first companies to target becoming carbon neutral by 2050. The first lap of the goal...
