What goes into producing the new low-carbon aluminium casting products is more post-consumer scrap and the right mix of cleaner energy as power sources like natural gas and electrical boilers at Hydro’s Alunorte alumina refinery in Brazil.
Hydro and Nemak have embarked on this new, long-term collaboration to develop foundry alloy aluminium solutions with a CO2 footprint below 3 kg CO2 per kilogram of aluminium. Otherwise, the partnership between Hydro and Nemak is old in the industry with the supply agreement of Hydro REDUXA primary foundry alloy with a carbon footprint below 4 Kg CO2 per kilogram of aluminium.
So, this new alliance can be viewed as a renewed one with a shared ambition of further reducing the carbon footprint in the automotive industry by 25 per cent, through research and development of next generation of alloys used in casting components.
