Century Aluminum launches low-carbon aluminium products
Century Aluminium has launched its Natur-Al low-carbon aluminium products. These products are produced at the ASI-certified Norðurál Grundartangi aluminium plant in Iceland, with energy from 100% renewable sources, allowing Century to achieve CO2 levels below one-fourth of the industry average, or 4 tonnes CO2/t of aluminium; this is one of the lowest CO2 footprints in the world. All CO2 emissions are verified by independent third parties, facilitating life-cycle assessments for our customers.
Natur-Al Zero is the company’s fully offset, pure, carbon-neutral aluminium product line. “We encourage and assist our customers to go all the way to carbon-neutrality through contributions to reforestation and wetland-reclamation projects,” says the Century statement.
Nucor Steel aims to produce some of the most technologically advanced steel sheet while having one of the lowest carbon footprints in the world.
Century Aluminum has been selected by the US Department of Energy (DoE) to receive USD500m investment to build a new ‘green’ aluminium smelter to accelerate industrial decarbonisation.
Ideally suited for aluminium, copper and non-ferrous alloys, green sand casting can produce castings in low, medium or high volumes in varying sizes, to meet the specific requirements of foundries.