Rio Tinto and Capral combine to utilise recycled aluminium
Aluminium extruder Capral has successfully trialled an aluminium billet with 20 percent recycled content produced by Rio Tinto at Boyne Smelters Limited (BSL). Utilising 50 to 100 tonnes of post-production aluminium scrap from Capral’s Bremer Park extrusion plant in Southeast Queensland, Rio Tinto remelted the metal and cast it into billets, resulting in a new…