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ESG

Environment

The circular economy, a major global trend, is creating a shift in production and consumer patterns that will drive more efficient use of natural capital and create added value across a product lifecycle. Aluminium is infinitely recyclable and can support supply chains that are less resource-intensive and more circular, with increased re-utilization of raw materials and minimized environmental impact.

Recycling aluminium requires 5% of the amount of electricity required to produce primary aluminium. These benefits, and the fact that recycled aluminium fully retains its original properties, create enormous potential to drive reductions in GHG emissions and energy consumption in the aluminium value chain.

Aluminium recycling

According to data from the International Aluminium Institute (IAI), recycled aluminium could meet half of demand for the metal by 2050. Aluminium demand is expected to increase by about 80% in this period, due to population and economic growth and the shift to a low carbon economy. In response to this trend, CBA has undertaken a set of ambitious commitments for 2030 and is investing in projects to substantially expand recycling capacity over the coming years.

This program is active in the following SDGs

(Sustainable Development Goals)

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Our 2030 Goals

Increase the ratio of aluminium recycled from industrial and end-of-life scrap at Metalex to 80%.

Increase the ratio of aluminium recycled from industrial and end-of-life scrap in billet production at the Alumínio (SP) plant to 50%.

What we're doing

Metalex

CBA’s Metalex operation is dedicated to recycling aluminium scrap. The facility produces billets using internally generated aluminium scrap as well as scrap purchased externally or supplied by customers and partners. A new scrap treatment line, due to start operation in 2023, will allow the Metalex operation to process a wider range of end-of-life-scrap (window and door frames from demolition sites, car parts, discarded equipment, etc.) and process scrap. This will increase the ratio of scrap in the billet production mix from 60% to as high as 80%. Investments in a new furnace will also increase billet production capacity from 75,000 to 90,000 metric tons per year.

What we're doing

Aumento do uso de sucata na Fundição

Com investimentos para a melhoria dos fornos de fusão e de espera na fábrica de Alumínio (SP), a CBA pretende aumentar o volume de sucata no mix de alguns de seus produtos fundidos. Para isso, também está trabalhando na prospecção de novos fornecedores de sucata de alumínio.

What we're doing

Alux

Em 2022, a CBA concluiu a integração da Alux à sua estrutura, após a aquisição de 80% da empresa no ano anterior. Com isso, passou a atuar no segmento de ligas secundárias, comercializadas majoritariamente para montadoras de automóveis, segmento de duas rodas e indústrias de autopeças. Em novembro, os outros 20% do capital social da Alux foram adquiridos pela Companhia.

Instalada em Nova Odessa (SP), a empresa tem capacidade produtiva de 46 mil toneladas por ano e conta com as certificações ISO 9001 e 14001 e International Automotive Task Force (IATF) desde 2006.

Neste primeiro ano, a Alux produziu um volume de 25 mil toneladas, trazendo um incremento de 40% ao total de reciclagem externa produzida pela CBA.

A nova unidade ainda viabilizará outros ganhos por meio da sinergia com as operações comerciais dos clientes de produtos Primários e Transformados ao processar sucatas pós-industriais e pós-consumo.

Carton and flexible packaging recycling

Currently only the paper portion of multilayer cartons, for example, can be recycled back into the process. The plastic and aluminium are reprocessed together, creating new materials. This poses a major obstacle from a circular-economy perspective. Flexible packaging, another multilayered material, is non-recyclable with current technologies and is often disposed of in landfills. Leading consumer goods manufacturers have struggled to recycle these types of materials and are seeking alternatives to aluminium in cartons and flexible packaging. In response to this market demand, CBA has set a specific target for 2030 to create added value in the supply chain for recycled multilayered packaging.

This program is active in the following SDGs

(Sustainable Development Goals)

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Our 2030 Goal

Recycle 40,000 metric tons of cartons and flexible packaging per year.

What we're doing

ReAl Project

An innovative physical and chemical process developed at CBA—dubbed ReAl—uses an alkaline solution that can isolate the plastic from any of these packaging materials, allowing the aluminium to be recycled. Unlike aluminium, plastic will not react in an alkaline solution, and can be cleanly removed from the process and then fully recycled. In addition to the benefit of recycling the aluminium and plastic layers, the process will generate hydrogen that can be used to produce clean energy on-site. The proprietary process will create added value for the entire packaging supply chain and its different actors, at low operating costs. CBA’s ReAl technology has now been patented and the recycling plant is due to begin operating in 2022, increasing packaging recycling rates in line with Brazil’s National Solid Waste Policy. This is the circular economy at work!

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