
RUSAL, one of the world's largest aluminium producers, has launched commercial production of Primary Equivalent Foundry Alloys (PEFA) with post-consumer scrap content for the automotive industry. The project has been realised at Irkutsk Aluminium Smelter (IrkAZ) along with increasing the share of recycled metal in the alloys that now reaches up to 40%. RUSAL started trial production of PEFA with 20% of aluminium end-of- life scrap in early 2023 and has been gradually increasing the recycled ...