The aluminium group Novelis plans to invest around $90m in increasing the recycling capacity for used aluminium beverage cans (UBCs) at its Latchford plant in Warrington, England. The project will increase the plant's recycling capacity for UBCs by 85,000 tonnes per year, more than doubling the capacity for this input stream, the aluminium concern announced on Wednesday.
"Of all the recycling players in the European market, Novelis has the highest ambition to maximise its recycled content across our product range," said Emilio Braghi, executive vice president of Novelis and president of Novelis Europe. "Globally, Novelis had an average of 63 per cent recycled content in our products in fiscal year 2024. This investment marks a major milestone in our ambitious programme to further expand our recycling capacity."
Among the planned improvements, Novelis is to build a new dross house and three new bag houses, and install state-of-the-art shredding, sorting, de-coating, and melting technologies. These investments are to raise the plant's recycling capacity as well as allow it to process new types of aluminium scrap, and to increase operational efficiency. The expansion of recycling capacity, as well as the implementation of advanced technologies, would result in an annual CO2e reduction of more than 350,000 tonnes for Novelis Europe, the company noted....
