US Aluminum Industry Makes Environmental Gains The Aluminum Association has released a report that shows positive environmental impact trendlines over the last 25 years for the U.S. aluminum industry.The U.S.Alumi- num Industry Sector Snapshot focuses on seven key envi- ronmental issue areas: air, energy, greenhouse gas emissions, land management, water, waste and aluminum scrap use. In nearly every area, the U.S. aluminum industry has reduced its impact significantly since the 1990s.These positive envi- ronmental trends are attributable to performance improve- ments and the transition from primary metal to significantly more recycled material. According to the report, the industry’s total air emissions reported to the EPA decreased by 65 percent from 1996 to 2019, while energy use dropped 55 percent from 1998 to 2018. Greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions declined by nearly 60 percent between 2005 and 2018.Additionally, U.S. man- ufacturers increased their use of aluminum scrap by more than 25 percent between 1993 and 2018. The association says aluminum produced in North Amer- ica is among the cleanest in the world because of a heavy reliance on renewable hydropower electricity generation. Over the past 40 years, the industry has cut the intensity of GHG emissions from primary production by more than half while doubling the amount of aluminum collected for recycling, the report noted. In addition to using inert anode technology to eliminate direct GHG emissions in primary production, firms also are working to increase aluminum recycling in manufacturing by entering into partnerships to recover and recycle alu- minum, the association noted.Aluminum recyclers have re- duced aluminum loss and solid waste generation using new technologies to extract more metal from dross and salt cake, residues of recycling processes. Later this year, the Aluminum Association plans to release a new life cycle assessment report (last updated in 2014) tracking the environmental impact of producing a unit of aluminum product in North America in several different markets.This is part of a suite of sustainability research and reporting the association produces on an ongoing basis in other markets, including packaging, automotive and build- ing and construction. Turkish Mill Buys Additional EAF Equipment Turkish steel producer Tosyali Demir Celik Sanayi A.S. has placed an order with United Kingdom-based Primet- als Technologies for a Quantum electric arc furnace (EAF) plant with some 2 million metric tons of annual capacity. According to Primetals, equipment sold also includes a twin vacuum-degassing plant with oxygen blowing and a two-strand slab caster for the flat steel greenfield project in Iskenderun,Turkey. The EAF Quantum is designed to handle metallic scrap and virgin materials such as hot briquetted iron (HBI) and pig iron in different composition and quality.
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