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The $159.4 million asset impairment charge Century Aluminium took in 2022 after idling its largest US smelter contributed to its $14.1 million annual loss, the Chicago-based company said on Thursday February 23. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Inquiries for supplies of low-carbon aluminium in Europe for 2023 are steadily increasing, leading a growing number of market participants to write the Fastmarkets low-carbon aluminium differentials into their contracts. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Aluminium products company AMAG has launched Al4®ever, a new product line of rolled and cast aluminium products with a guaranteed low-carbon footprint of less than four tonnes of CO2 per tonne of aluminium, the company announced on Thursday July 14. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Alcoa Corporation is supplying its low-carbon EcoLum aluminum to Hellenic Cables SA, one of Europe's largest cable producers, the company said on Thursday June 2. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

South 32 Limited has completed the acquisition of an additional 16.6% sharehold in Mozal Aluminium from MCA Metals holding GmbH (Mitsubishi), the company announced in a statement on Wednesday June 1. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Rio Tinto has commissioned a new remelt furnace at its Laterrière plant, adding 22,000 tonnes of recycling capacity to its aluminium operations in the Saguenay - Lac-Saint-Jean region of Quebec, Canada. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Ball Corporation's subsidiary plant in Yangon, Myanmar has achieved the first Aluminium Stewardship Initiative (ASI) certification in Myanmar, it was announced in a statement on Thursday March 31. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

UACJ Corporation are the first Japanese aluminium company to achieve Aluminium Stewardship Initiative (ASI) certification, it said in a press release on Monday March 21. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Here are five Fastmarkets stories you might have missed on Monday March 21 that are worth another look. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Boliden has started selling low-carbon zinc, with its first customers being German galvanizing company Zinkpower and Belgian chemicals producer EverZinc, the Stockholm, Sweden-based mining and metals company said. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Commodity trade house Glencore and industrial mining group Managem announced Wednesday January 26 that they have formed a conditional partnership to produce recycled cobalt. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

German aluminium producer Oetinger Aluminium has achieved the Aluminium Stewardship Initiative (ASI) Performance Standard certification with provisional status, the company announced on Wednesday January 19. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Russian aluminium producer Rusal has opened the first phase of a new low-carbon aluminium production plant at the Taishet smelter (TaAZ) in Siberia, the company announced on Friday December 17. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Norwegian aluminium and renewable energy company Norsk Hydro kept the focus firmly on sustainability during the annual capital markets day held on Monday December 13 and announced the company's ambitious pathways to achieving net-zero emissions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

US-based aluminium producer Alcoa announced on Tuesday November 9 its adoption of a three-stage "technology roadmap" intended to assist in the decarbonization of upstream aluminium supply and to help achieve the target of net-zero carbon emissions by 2050. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Growing consumer appetite for sustainable products and tighter regulations on carbon-intensive primary aluminium production, such as the EU's recent proposal for a carbon border adjustment mechanism (CBAM), have seen greater investment in scrap-processing facilities across Europe, providing long-term support for scrap prices as a result. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Swiss packaging company Aluflexpack has achieved Aluminium Stewardship Initiative (ASI) Performance Standard Certification at its Drniš production site in Croatia, and also Chain of Custody (CoC) Standard Certification at both Drniš and Einsiesdeln in Switzerland, it was announced on Monday November 8. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Low-carbon metal production will be the key to profitability, Hilde Merete Aasheim, president and chief executive at Norwegian aluminium and renewable energy company Norsk Hydro said in a keynote presentation at the LME Week on Monday October 11. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The London Metal Exchange's new spot trading platform is expected to start with low-carbon aluminium before rolling out other metals – and could eventually become a springboard for some new futures contracts, its chief executive officer said. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Aluminium producer Alcoa aims to achieve net-zero greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions across its global operations by 2050, it said on Monday October 4. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Australia-based mining company South32 have announced that they have exercised their pre-emptive rights to acquire an additional 25% shareholding in Mozal Aluminium from MCA Metals Holding GmbH (Mitsubishi) in a public notice released on Thursday September 30. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

En+ Group is eyeing a partnership with the manufacturer of an electric vehicle to produce aluminium with low-carbon greenhouse gas emissions, its executive chairman told Fastmarkets. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Budweiser Brewing Group, the UK arm of Belgium-based brewer Anheuser-Busch InBev (AB InBev), has launched a pilot project to produce beer cans made of low-carbon aluminium in partnership with the metals division of En+ Group, rolling company Eval and beverage can maker Canpack. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Brazil's Vale has launched a new iron ore product that will reduce greenhouse gases by up to 10% in the steel production process, it said on Thursday September 9. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Reducing carbon emissions has been a key focus of the aluminium industry for the last few years, but now the industry is shifting focus to bauxite and alumina with many key projects underway. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Alcoa will supply low-carbon primary aluminium to WKW Extrusion's Erbslöh Aluminium for its new brand of semi-finished extrusion alloys, the US producer said. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Recycled aluminium could meet 50% of demand for the metal by 2050, according to the International Aluminium Institute (IAI). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

China's approach to addressing aluminium overcapacity is a "night and day" change from five years' ago, according to the chief executive officer of Alcoa Corporation, Roy Harvey. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Inert anode technology is one of several methods UC Rusal will use to achieve carbon neutrality by 2050, with the company to lay out a roadmap on its path forward in September, a senior executive at the aluminium producer told Fastmarkets. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Global aluminium producer United Co Rusal has completed its acquisition of Germany-based aluminium products producer Aluminium Rheinfelden GmbH, it said in a release dated Friday April 16. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Aluminium consumers are stepping up demand for products that allow them to reduce their carbon footprint via metal produced using low emissions, the chief commercial officer of Alcoa Corp said. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Alcoa Corp is supplying low- and zero-carbon aluminium for the wheels on carmaker Audi's e-tron GT, which will make it the first vehicle to use metal from its Elysis joint venture. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The aluminium industry needs to slash its total greenhouse gas emissions by around 80% over the next three decades at the same time as growing production in primary and recycled metal by 80% in order to meet climate change targets, according to the International Aluminium Institute (IAI). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Fastmarkets is proposing to launch low-carbon aluminium differentials to its existing European P1020 and value-added product (VAP) premium contracts in $ per tonne to meet market demand for a low-carbon aluminium pricing mechanism. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Alvance, the aluminium division of GFG Alliance, is proposing to invest in a new recycling and casting facility that will almost double output at its Fort William, Scotland, plant and continue its growth as a low-carbon production hub. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Uncertainty about next year's aluminium fundamentals and consumer hesitance to commit to long-term, large-tonnage contracts has Alvance chief operating officer Guillaume De Goys expecting an active spot market in 2021. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The partnership between Anheuser-Busch InBev (AB InBev) and Rio Tinto to create beer cans made from low-carbon aluminium is the inaugural step in a broad-based, long-term journey, executives at the two companies said. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The Aluminium Stewardship Initiative (ASI) has welcomed trader Tiberius as a new general supporter member, bringing the total number of ASI members to 128. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

United States aluminium producer Alcoa Corp will supply low-carbon aluminium rolling slab to Gränges AB as part of the Sweden-based rolled products producer's goal of cutting carbon emissions across its supply chain. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

A vast amount of investment will be required to achieve meaningful change in the carbon footprint of aluminium across a broad portion of the industry, and the commercial impetus is not there yet, according to the secretary general of the International Aluminium Institute (IAI). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Tariffs on low-carbon aluminium imports into the European Union should be eliminated to help power the region's Covid-19 recovery package and climate transition strategy, according to the chairman of En+ Group. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The London Metal Exchange has bolstered efforts to explore low-carbon initiatives this month, emphasizing green aluminium production as its target, but at a time of unprecedented distortions across the global raw materials supply chain, market sentiment remains mixed. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Most major aluminium producers agree that tackling the carbon intensity of the smelting process is one of the biggest challenges facing their industry. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Prices for industrial-quality, low-carbon wire rod tumbled in the United States for the eighth consecutive month after input costs fell and distributors avoided buying for stock. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]