THE PACE AT WHICH EUROPE MUST DECARBONIZE

On May 18, Emilio Braghi, Executive Vice President of Novelis and CEO of Novelis Europe, gave a keynote presentation at the 27th World Aluminum Conference. He noted in his speech that during a phase of energy transition, the pace at which Europe must decarbonize is accelerating. This will create an even stronger attraction for renewable energies such as electricity.

It also confirms that the production of low-carbon primary aluminum is a big step towards reducing carbon emissions, but it requires the same amount of energy as aluminum recycling. However, both ways of obtaining aluminum are very energy efficient, saving about 95%.

The expert also insists that all stakeholders must commit and join efforts to establish an enabling policy framework to promote circularity, as well as to develop closed-loop recycling systems. Thus overcoming the problem through technological innovation that will have to be done jointly by the industrial sector and the PET industry with new investments in better collection and sorting facilities. To advance this joint roadmap, technology and innovation are key. The most important areas are materials innovation, new scrap segregation technologies and improvements in the creation of low-carbon and low-energy production processes.