Moscow, April 19. In the next two years Russia plans to double sales of ALLOW low-carbon aluminium. This was announced by Artem Asatur, Head of International Cooperation at the Aluminium Association, in his speech at the green metallurgy session of the 24th Summit 'Metals and Mining Industry of Russia and CIS 2019' organised by the Adam Smith Institute.
According to him, Russia has been actively participating in the global cooperation to reduce climate load and promote the domestic 'green' brand of basic industries' products. For example, in 2017 RUSAL presented ALLOW, its own brand of low-carbon aluminium, the production of which generates less than 4 tonnes of CO2 emissions per tonne of aluminium with the average value for the world's industry of around 12 tonnes of CO2/tonne of aluminium. Currently, the production of ALLOW aluminium is already running and it is expected to supply around 0.5 mln tonnes of products under this brand in 2019. By 2022, it is planned to reach the level of 1 mln tonnes.
The green metallurgy session was initiated by the Aluminium Association. Its relevancy is caused by increasing attention to sustainable development problems and search for the most efficient materials and technologies that allow minimising environmental damage. The session was attended by representatives of non-ferrous metallurgy companies who discussed industry-related issues and priority development areas. Important items for discussion included participation of the Russian metallurgy in implementation of the global agenda intended to reduce adverse environmental effect of the industry, as well as environmental friendliness as a competitive advantage and responsibility of production facilities, 'green' power, global climate change, raising 'green' investment and switching to a 'green' model of economic growth.
Participants of the session highlighted a notable contribution of the Russian aluminium industry producing aluminium and aluminium products with a low carbon footprint to the global sustainable development of the planet.