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 ...

$558 million investment project will create and maintain thousands of jobs in Canada SAGUENAY, QC, May 10, 2018 /CNW/ - Global aluminum industry leaders Alcoa Corporation and Rio Tinto Aluminum today ...

Apple has made significant investments in its goal of significantly reducing its carbon footprint in manufacturing its various products. Apple’s Green Bonds project has gulped about $4.7 billion since ...

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 ...

PITTSBURGH--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Alcoa Corp. (NYSE: AA) today unveiled a technology roadmap to support the Company’s vision to reinvent the aluminum industry for a sustainable future. The technologies in ...

MONTREAL--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Rio Tinto and Aymium have partnered to develop and trial a renewable biocarbon product for use as an alternative resource to reduce emissions in large scale industrial ...

The proposed PacWest/HiTest silicon smelter in Newport, Washington, was touted as a “green” facility since some of its product, metallurgical grade silicon, would be further refined for use in silicon ...

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.

In 2025, the zinc industry embraced a new phase of comprehensive development. Domestically, resource security continued to strengthen, smelting technology achieved breakthroughs and upgrades, and ...

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