"RecAL": New recycling technologies for aluminium
Bar ohne Namen
Entschlossen verweigert sich Savage, der Bar einen Namen zu geben. Stattdessen sind drei klassische Design-Symbole das Logo der Trinkstätte in Dalston: ein gelbes Quadrat, ein rotes Viereck, ein blauer Kreis. Am meisten wurmt den sympathischen Franzosen dabei, dass es kein Gelbes-Dreieck-Emoji gibt. Das erschwert auf komische Weise die Kommunikation. Der Instagram Account lautet: a_bar_with_shapes-for_a_name und anderenorts tauchen die Begriffe ‘Savage Bar’ oder eben ‚Bauhaus Bar‘ auf.
Für den BCB bringt Savage nun sein Barkonzept mit und mixt für uns mit Unterstützung von Russian Standard Vodka an der perfekten Bar dazu.
A new era of sustainable production and reuse of aluminium
The new EU project RecAL (Recycling Technologies for Circular Aluminium) primarily aims to fully exploit the immense potential of secondary aluminium resources in Europe, revolutionise recycling processes, address key challenges in alloy development and promote sustainable practices.
With the development of the RecAL Hub, a digital cockpit, the project aims to usher in a new era of sustainable production and reuse of aluminium. This hub will make it possible to promote the circular economy of aluminium recyclates across Europe and connect suppliers, buyers and technology solution providers.
The initiative is led by the AIT Austrian Institute of Technology, implemented by 19 partner organisations from nine European countries and coordinated by LKR Leichtmetallkompetenzzentrum Ranshofen, a subsidiary of the AIT.
Circular economy as the future for European aluminium
The recycling of aluminium from existing end-of-life (EoL) and production waste holds enormous potential - given this crucial role in global decarbonisation, the RecAL project aims to harness and exploit this potential in an environmentally friendly and efficient manner in line with the European Green Deal. It takes a comprehensive approach to sustainable use that strategically addresses every step of the production and reuse cycle and solves challenges along the entire value chain.
One of the biggest challenges in recycling aluminium is the large number of other elements with which the metal is alloyed and which are practically impossible to separate again. The current most common practice is to mix these different EoL alloys, but this inevitably leads to downcycling and a reduction in available feedstock.
Recycling technologies for the circularity of aluminium
The RecAL project has several objectives, including the development of recycling technologies with higher tolerance to impurities, the use of digitalisation and robotics in sorting and dismantling, the creation of recyclate streams with improved purities and the adaptation of production paradigms to fully exploit the potential of secondary resources. It also aims to harmonise communication between the sectors of the aluminium industry.
To achieve its goals, RecAL is driving forward a total of 14 key technological solutions for aluminium recycling, which are integrated into a digital ecosystem and enable direct collaboration along the entire value chain. The platform contributes significantly to industrial and technological symbiosis at regional and European level by linking energy, resource and data cycles.
Horizontal continuous casting machine at LKR. © AIT/Lang
