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We believe our products have an important role to play
As a light, strong, versatile metal that recycles over and over again, aluminum offers energy-saving solutions to consumers and industry that few other materials can match. Aluminum can improve fuel economy and reduce emissions in automobiles, trucks, trains, and ships. In beverage cans, it recycles directly from scrap back into can stock—something few other container materials can do. The process saves 95% of the energy used to make new can sheet.

Aluminum will be greenhouse gas neutral in 2025
In the critical transportation industry, our research in lifecycle modeling has shown that by 2025 the emissions of the entire aluminum industry can be offset by the potential emission savings from the transport sector's increased use of aluminum.


Technical paper on life-cycle analysis


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Read the lifecycle research paper


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