The US Department of Energy selected five base metals projects to receive more than $900 million in federal investment from its Industrial Demonstration Program (IDP), leading to a reduction of four million tonnes of carbon dioxide emissions annually, according to a statement by the Department on Monday March 25

The US could get a new primary aluminium smelter, investments in copper recycling and projects to decarbonize iron and steelmaking as part of a $6 billion government package announced on Monday, March 25

Aluminium producer and recycler Constellium announced on Tuesday March 12 that the company is moving to test hydrogen utilization at an industrial scale as a power source in its casthouses

Increasing amounts of aluminium are being used to make solar panels, reduce vehicle emissions and upgrade electricity networks in a structural shift to patterns of long-term aluminium consumption

The rising interest for low-carbon primary aluminium within East Asia is clear, although its ability to command a premium remains uncertain, according to market participants

Read more about how we are responding to growing demand for green metal in Japan and South Korea

Interest in low-carbon aluminium from the beverage and packaging industry is growing and aluminium packaging company Ball Corporation is working to meet that increasing demand, Dan Fisher, chairman and chief executive officer, said during the company’s earnings call on Thursday February 1

China’s aluminium industry has increased the development pace of green-power aluminium in recent years, by using more green power for electrolytic aluminium production to reduce carbon emission and also by actively pushing forward differentiation of the metal from its non-green-power counterpart

Key talking points at Fastmarkets’ International Aluminium conference in Barcelona, Spain, on September 12-14

Novelis has noted increasing enthusiasm for low-carbon aluminium sheet from the automotive sector, more so than its other business segments, including beverage cans and specialty markets, according to a top executive at the company