12.04.2023 (Aluminium Association)
Such data was announced during the Aluminium Day, which was part of the business programme of the recycling exhibitionMoscow International Recycling Expo 2023 and the International Forum "Scrap of Ferrous and Non-Ferrous Metals". This problem can be solved by increasing the efficiency of scrap harvesting. This was the agenda of the Aluminium Association, which organised the event together with the RUSLOM.COM NSRO Association and the Secondary Aluminium Association.
Aluminium Day brought together leading experts from the aluminium and scrap industries. Among them were Snezhana Ravlyuk, marketing analyst of the Aluminium Association; Viktor Kovshevny, director of RUSLOM.COM; Alexander Kobenko, member of the board of directors of Acron Holding; Evgeny Konyakhin, chairman of the board of directors of Yug-Met Production Technopark; Alexey Alipchenko, member of the Presidium of RUSLOM.COM Alexey Alipchenko, Andrey Tsydenov, CEO of Aluminium Alloy Plant, Alexander Shepelev, CEO of Taurus Motors, and Dmitry Puzanov, Director of the Council of Industrial Enterprises of Secondary Nonferrous Metallurgy.
The Aluminium Day programme at the World Trade Centre (ITC) in Moscow was divided into three thematic blocks, each of which had its own moderator: Nikita Taganovich, Head of the Recycling Sector of the Aluminium Association, led the discussion "Aluminium Market. The round table "Global Energy Transition and Circularity of the Economy" was moderated by Danil Shadrikov from RUSAL's Sustainability Marketing Department, while the topic and panelists of the discussion "Development of Alu-minium Processing Technologies" were introduced to the audience by Denis Gorshkov, columnist and presenter of RBC TV.
Aluminium Day participants discussed key market trends, the global energy transition, the circular economy, and the development of aluminium processing technologies. During the event, representatives of UC RUSAL, one of the world's largest aluminium producers, stressed the importance of developing the scrap procurement market as one of the key factors in building a closed-cycle economy.
Snezhana Ravlyuk, an expert of the Aluminium Association, spoke about the key factors that will determine the non-ferrous metals market in the next 10-15 years. These are the green energy transition, the development of a circular economy and the imposition of trade barriers and restrictions. Aluminium as a construction material meets the requirements of a zero-waste economy to the greatest extent - it is environmentally friendly, can be recycled an infinite number of times without losing its properties, and the service life of its products exceeds 90 years. According to the expert, in the next 10 years, the growth in demand for secondary aluminium will outpace the growth in demand for primary metal. Today, global brands are increasingly focused on increasing the use of recycled materials, thereby reducing the carbon footprint of their products.
Today, the scrap recycling market uses no more than 50% of its capacity, while experts believe that the real target for aluminium is 60-70%.
An important development for the market was the initiation of the Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) system in 2015. According to the document, it is planned to introduce a 100 per cent regulation in 2027, meaning that packaging manufacturers will have to pay the full environmental levy. No more than 30 per cent goes to the processors.
The aluminium can market segment in the country is estimated to be 100 thousand tonnes of metal annually.
In the course of the event, proposals were put forward to improve the investment attractiveness of the industry, in particular, the licensing system for handling scrap and waste of ferrous and non-ferrous metals. Today, in order to carry out such activities, enterprises need to have two licences: a licence to procure, store, process and sell ferrous and non-ferrous metal scrap and a licence to collect, transport, process, recycle, neutralise and dispose of waste of hazard classes I - IV. Forum participants proposed to keep one licence for hazardous waste management and to rename it to "waste management licence", adding waste of the fifth hazard class (non-hazardous scrap, etc.) to its Annex.
There was also a proposal to revise the criteria for categorising secondary aluminium smelters as EIA enterprises - enterprises that have a negative impact on the environment.
The proceedings of the three sessions of the Aluminium Day can be accessed by clicking here..