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"A game changer." LME to add emissions data tracking for aluminum ahead of EU policy
"It’s the stuff that makes sustainability real, and it gives it a future, because it’s based on facts rather than noise."
"It’s the stuff that makes sustainability real, and it gives it a future, because it’s based on facts rather than noise."
Porsche research shows replacing roof of Taycan EV with aluminum could drop weight by 40%
Why then do many leading international institutions and steel manufacturers argue for emission policies that discourage recycling altogether?
After more than 35 years as the Institute of Scrap Recycling Industries, the Washington D.C.-based trade group is reinventing itself as the Recycled Materials Association, or ReMA.
The good news: a more profitable and consolidated post-Covid U.S. steel industry has been able to invest in operations. That includes efforts to decarbonize.
With an annual demand in excess of 25 billion pounds, the U.S. imports nearly 10 billion pounds of primary aluminum from foreign sources. Major exporters to the U.S. have recently seen their trade disrupted or even fully stopped.
Kataman Metals globally trades about 300,000 tons of copper, aluminum, iron, and other scrap raw materials annually.
The projects are part of a larger, $6-billion DOE agenda funded by the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA) and the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA).
The plans are being made possible by a grant of up to $500 million from the Department of Energy’s Industrial Demonstrations Program.
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