European Aluminium position on the assessment of the fire performance of claddings

Aluminium Associations Joint Letter to G20 Leaders

New 2050 climate strategy can have aluminium value chains as a role model to achieve targets

European Aluminium welcomes the European Commission’s new plans to secure a long-term decarbonised economy by 2050.

Europen Joint Position Paper on the Single Use Plastics Directive

Stakeholders in the packaging materials sector call on EU policy-makers to ensure the safeguard of the Internal Market for packaging and packaged products and avoid fragmentation.

European Aluminium confirms positive market outlook despite trade challenges

European Aluminium confirmed that the outlook for the European aluminium market is positive. Overall, the industry shows positive numbers for semifabricated products. European primary production, however, is experiencing temporary clouds due to trade challenges.

Lost opportunity for lighter and more efficient cars

The EU Parliament has confirmed the political will to go for higher targets to limit CO2 emissions from cars and vans by 2025 and 2030. Unfortunately though the Parliament did not have the courage to make lightweighting more relevant by deleting the mass-based utility parameter.

Implementing the amended Energy Performance of Buildings Directive: Opening up the potential of windows

Steel safeguard measures send a strong signal: Commission acts against distortive trade practices

After the announcement that the European Commission will impose safeguard measures on certain steel products, European Aluminium calls on the Commission to monitor import surges vigilantly and defend its industry against an influx of aluminium imports if proven necessary.

Aluminium beverage can recycling at 74%!

The overall recycling rate for aluminium beverage cans in the European Union, Switzerland, Norway and Iceland increased by 0.7% to a new record level of 73.6% in 2015.

G7 makes explicit urgency to avoid aluminium overcapacity

European Aluminium welcomes the G7’s communiqué stressing the “urgent need to avoid excess capacity” in the aluminium sector and the push to develop a stronger international rules on market distorting industrial subsidies and trade-distorting actions by state-owned enterprises.