{"id":64880,"date":"2026-07-31T13:03:47","date_gmt":"2026-07-31T13:03:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/64880\/"},"modified":"2026-07-31T13:03:47","modified_gmt":"2026-07-31T13:03:47","slug":"hydro-and-mercedes-benz-to-scale-low-carbon-aluminium-in-europe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/64880\/","title":{"rendered":"Hydro and Mercedes-Benz to scale low-carbon aluminium in Europe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hydro.com\/en\/en\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Hydro<\/a> and Mercedes-Benz are expanding their partnership to increase the use of recycled and low-carbon aluminium across Europe. <\/p>\n<p>As a first step, Mercedes-Benz will become the first automotive company in Europe to integrate Hydro Circal into series production for the next generation of large electric vehicles. <\/p>\n<p>This recycled aluminium is made with at least 75% post-consumer scrap, a major increase from today&#8217;s minimum of 25%. <\/p>\n<p>The material is produced through recycling processes that recover aluminium from end-of-life vehicles, buildings, and infrastructure and return it to new automotive applications. <\/p>\n<p>Eivind Kallevik, President and CEO of Hydro, said: \u201cThe automotive industry needs materials that can cut emissions without compromising quality, safety or performance. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cBy combining Hydro Circal recycled aluminium with Hydro Reduxa low-carbon primary aluminium, we can accelerate the transition to lower-carbon vehicles while building more resilient value chains. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis partnership shows how Hydro, as a leading supplier of recycled and low-carbon aluminium, can deliver industrial scale solutions that support both decarbonisation and competitiveness.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>Hydro and Mercedes-Benz will continue to explore additional opportunities to reduce the carbon footprint of aluminium at industrial scale. <\/p>\n<p>At the core of their partnership is a collaboration on low-carbon primary aluminium. <\/p>\n<p>This includes sourcing additional volumes of Hydro Reduxa for Mercedes-Benz as well as a joint commitment to reducing the carbon footprint of this material over time.<\/p>\n<p>As a complimentary solution, with Hydro Circal, the companies will keep aluminium in circulation to help meet growing demand, reducing the need for new raw materials and lowering the overall carbon footprint. <\/p>\n<p>This will also demonstrate that high levels of post-consumer recycled content can be achieved without compromising stringent requirements for performance, quality, and safety. <\/p>\n<p>At the same time, collecting, remaking and reusing aluminium scrap close to production creates shorter, more efficient, and more resilient regional supply chains. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hydro and Mercedes-Benz are expanding their partnership to increase the use of recycled and low-carbon aluminium across Europe.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":64881,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20951],"tags":[43449,49208,49206,49209,49207,6153,355,3622,5037,49210,348,5361],"class_list":["post-64880","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mercedes-benz","tag-ait","tag-aluminium-magazine","tag-aluminium-publication","tag-aluminum-magazine","tag-aluminum-publication","tag-carbon","tag-international","tag-mercedes-benz","tag-metal","tag-non-ferrous","tag-sustainability","tag-today"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64880","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=64880"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64880\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/64881"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64880"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64880"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64880"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}