Recycling Today SEP 2024 / by By Daniel Kern, Vice President, Global Automotive Development, Novelis / Read original article
The move to electric vehicles drives sustainability opportunities across the entire aluminum supply chain.
Industry leaders like Novelis, headquartered in Atlanta, are fueling efforts to capture recycled aluminum’s tremendous value for the global automotive supply chain via closed-loop recycling programs and investments in new recycling operations. Now the focus turns to the industry’s next challenge—recapturing aluminum from vehicles once they are no longer on the road.
Novelis has been working on this opportunity for years, and we are making progress. We have invested in and deployed innovative scrap sortation and segregation operations that “close the loop” by enabling aluminum from end-of-life vehicles to be captured, further realizing the value of recycled content. We also have done research and developed new automotive aluminum alloys that accept higher scrap content along with creating single-alloy designs for hoods, doors and other closures that support design-for-disassembly initiatives.
Still, to fully realize the opportunity presented to us as an industry, it is incumbent upon all players in the automotive supply chain to come together to make cost-effective recapture of high-value, end-of-life automotive aluminum a reality.
The lay of the land
Novelis, our supply chain partners and forward-thinking automotive original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) have made great strides in incorporating aluminum made from high amounts of recycled content into the latest vehicle models.
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