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The Phase One Report of the Global Recycling League Table produced by Eunomia Research and Consulting analysed the recycling performance of 48 countries, encompassing those with the highest reported recycling rates and many of the world’s largest economies. The study also incorporated lower-income countries from Latin America, Asia, and Africa ...

August 20, 2024

New data from the International Aluminium Institute (IAI) shows that, for the first time, total greenhouse gas emissions from the global aluminium sector did not grow, even though production increased.

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June 5, 2024

The International Aluminium Institute (IAI) recognised and celebrated women across the aluminium industry through a communication campaign that reflected IAI’s commitment to fostering diversity, equality and inclusion.  IAI gathered the perspectives of 10 women in its member companies and the Institute itself. These women shared how they got into the ...

March 31, 2024

A note on Terminology: The terms “workplace psychological health and safety” are considered synonymous with, in many parts of the world, “workplace mental health and safety.” “Psychological” is used in this introduction but can be considered interchangeable with “mental”. These pages serve as an introduction to demonstrate why organisations should ...

February 27, 2024

Since the 1980s, the aluminum industry in China has made the most significant progress in two aspects. One is the annual output of primary aluminum that has continuously risen from roughly 400,000 tons in 1983 to 40.21 million tons in 2022, accounting for 58.8% of the total annual global output. ...

February 5, 2024

A report on ‘Alumina Production from Secondary Aluminium Dross‘, presented by Prof. Fengqin Liu and her team from University of Science and Technology Beijing has now been published. A novel large-scale process for producing alumina from secondary aluminium dross has been successfully developed in China, addressing environmental and health concerns ...

January 18, 2024

The IAI is pleased to publish the final report for the IAI project Guidance on heat-related illness. The document aims to Identify and classify the various approaches to management of heat stress and heat-related illness, including measures that are well-known and documented in the literature as well as practices currently ...

January 15, 2024

The International Aluminium Institute (IAI) has launched a new initiative that commits to transparently and publicly track ambition and progress in greenhouse gas reduction of all its member companies. This initiative has already been backed by major aluminium producers as the sector continues to act on reducing its greenhouse gas ...

December 4, 2023

The global use of aluminium beverage cans is set to increase to 630 billion units by 2030 (from 420 billion units in 2020). Recycling these 630 billion aluminium beverage cans globally would save 60 million tonnes of greenhouse gas emissions per year. Despite the fact that over 70% of aluminium ...

December 4, 2023
An intricate, spherical metal sculpture composed of intersecting aluminium rods, creating a geometric lattice structure.

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