Dive summary:
- Construction has started on the Novelis aluminum recycling facility in Nachterstedt, Germany; after it is finished it will be the largest aluminum recycling facility in the world.
- The facility will process 440,000 tons cans and other aluminum scrap collected from around Europe.
- Novelis is an aluminum rolling and recycling company that supplies aluminum sheet and foil products to automotive, transportation, packaging, construction, industrial, electronics and printing markets across the globe.
From the article:
“The advanced sorting, processing and casting capabilities of the new Nachterstedt operation will propel us closer to our goal of 80 percent recycled content by 2020,” said Phil Martens, President and Chief Executive Officer for Novelis in a press release.
The new center is expected to create 200 new jobs when it opens in 2014.
The process of recycling aluminum represents major cost savings over the production of new aluminum, as well as significant environmental benefits. Using recycled aluminum requires only about 5 percent of the energy used to create aluminum from raw materials, thus saving natural resources and reducing greenhouse gases. ...
