Toronto, Ontario – A Quebec-based aluminum producer has partnered up with the second-largest mining corporation in the world to develop more environmentally sustainable alloys.
Shawinigan Aluminum Inc. (SAI) will be working alongside U.K. mining giant Rio Tinto to “offer customers in Canada and the United States high-quality alloys made with recycled content, with a new service to recycle their aluminum scrap.”
This comes in response to Rio Tinto’s claim that their customers “asked us to find a way to reuse their scrap metal.” Thus, the decision was made to begin planning for a $7 million “state-of-the-art melting facility” in Quebec that “will be able to recycle up to 30,000 metric tonnes of our customers’ aluminum per year,” according to a post on the Rio Tinto website. “We will use the recycled scrap to make alloys suited to each customer’s specific needs.”
SAIs new facility will be responsible for producing recycled alloys to be used in electric vehicles, aluminum wheels and more.
