AHEAD of COP30 next week, Ball Corporation, Alcoa and Unilever have partnered to launch the first aerosol can made from ELYSIS carbon-free aluminium smelting technology for personal and home care products.
The collaboration is said to mark the first time aluminium produced using ELYSIS carbon-free smelting technology – an innovation that eliminates direct greenhouse gas emissions from smelting generating oxygen in place of CO2 – is being used in consumer personal and home care packaging. The resulting aerosol can is made with 50% ELYSIS primary aluminium and 50% post-consumer recycled content.
“Through this collaboration with Ball and Unilever, we’re helping bring low-carbon aluminium into everyday products and demonstrating how innovation at the material level can deliver tangible sustainability benefits,” said Renato Bacchi, executive VP and chief commercial officer at Alcoa. “We are proud to collaborate across the aluminium value chain to reduce carbon footprints and create real impact in people’s daily lives.”
Ramon Arratia, chief sustainability officer & VP, public affairs at Ball Corporation, added, “This project combines higher recycled content and low-carbon primary aluminium – both key to decarbonise aluminium packaging and the aluminium sector at large. This is both a packaging innovation and critical supply chain collaboration at work.”
