The company is using the first technology license issued by Elysis, its joint venture with Alcoa. Rio Tinto is using the first technology license issued by Elysis, its joint venture with Alcoa, to ...

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 ...

A new process creates the metal without its usual emissions and Apple—which uses lots of it in their phones and computers—is investing to help create more. Aluminum is abundant in more things than ...

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 ...

Although Charles Hall conducted his first successful run of the Hall-Héroult aluminium smelting process in the woodshed behind his house, it has ever since remained mostly out of reach of home ...

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 ...

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