Copper smelting is an intricate high‐temperature process that converts copper concentrates into purer metallic copper through a series of chemical and thermal reactions. Central to modern smelting ...

PITTSBURGH--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Alcoa Corporation (NYSE: AA) and Rio Tinto (NYSE: RIO) today announced a revolutionary process to make aluminum that produces oxygen and eliminates all direct greenhouse ...

PITTSBURGH--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Alcoa Corporation (NYSE: AA) today announced further progress on ELYSIS technology with Rio Tinto’s plans to launch the first industrial-scale demonstration of the ...

In May 2018, Apple announced that it had helped facilitate a collaboration between two of the world's largest aluminum producers, Alcoa and Rio Tinto, on a new carbon-free aluminum smelting process.

The COREX smelting reduction process represents a prominent alternative in modern ironmaking by eliminating the reliance on traditional blast furnaces. This method integrates a melter–gasifier and a ...

A research team from Central South University in China develops innovative control method to reduce carbon emissions from zinc oxide rotary kilns. The zinc smelting industry is facing new challenges ...

The aluminum used in Apple products ranging from iPhones to MacBooks could be more sustainably manufactured in as early as six years. The first aluminum manufactured with the new process Apple today ...

Research from Cranfield University sheds new light onto the transition from the Bronze Age to the Iron Age, showing how experimentation with iron-rich rocks by copper smelters may have sparked the ...

MIT researchers were conducting experiments with the aim of building better batteries when they discovered something different instead: a new and better way to smelt metal. Study researcher Donald ...

PITTSBURGH--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Alcoa Corporation (AA) (NYSE: AA, ASX: AAI) (“Alcoa” or the “Company”), Ball Corporation (BALL) and Unilever PLC (UL) announced the first use of breakthrough ELYSIS® ...

Apple said the new process of smelting aluminum replaces the use of carbon with an advanced conductive material. Oxygen is released as a result instead of carbon dioxide, meaning the metal can be ...