PITTSBURGH--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Alcoa Corporation (NYSE: AA) and Rio Tinto (NYSE: RIO) today announced a revolutionary process to make aluminum that produces oxygen and eliminates all direct greenhouse ...

The aluminum used in Apple products ranging from iPhones to MacBooks could be more sustainably manufactured in as early as six years. The first aluminum manufactured with the new process Apple today ...

The proposed PacWest/HiTest silicon smelter in Newport, Washington, was touted as a “green” facility since some of its product, metallurgical grade silicon, would be further refined for use in silicon ...

Research from Cranfield University sheds new light onto the transition from the Bronze Age to the Iron Age, showing how experimentation with iron-rich rocks by copper smelters may have sparked the ...

PITTSBURGH--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Alcoa Corporation (NYSE: AA) today announced further progress on ELYSIS technology with Rio Tinto’s plans to launch the first industrial-scale demonstration of the ...

MIT researchers were conducting experiments with the aim of building better batteries when they discovered something different instead: a new and better way to smelt metal. Study researcher Donald ...

A research team from Central South University in China develops innovative control method to reduce carbon emissions from zinc oxide rotary kilns. The zinc smelting industry is facing new challenges ...

Alcoa engineers have spent two decades and untold millions chasing a cheaper way to make aluminum. Will it all be just a dream? Amid the wooded 891-hectare campus of the Alcoa Technical Center, a ...

PITTSBURGH--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Alcoa Corporation (AA) (NYSE: AA, ASX: AAI) (“Alcoa” or the “Company”), Ball Corporation (BALL) and Unilever PLC (UL) announced the first use of breakthrough ELYSIS® ...

The world produced more than 63 million tonnes of aluminium last year, which went into everything from kitchen foil and cans to aircraft. The metal is lightweight, fully recyclable and surprisingly ...

Apple said the new process of smelting aluminum replaces the use of carbon with an advanced conductive material. Oxygen is released as a result instead of carbon dioxide, meaning the metal can be ...