Strong Foundation for Growth, Decarbonisation and Shareholder Returns
Climate and value chain:
H2 2021 highlights
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Carbfix partnership: to implement a technology
for capturing carbon and permanently storing it
underground at our ISAL aluminium smelter in Iceland.
Department of Energy awarded $2.2m of funding
to a Rio Tinto-led team to explore carbon storage
potential at the Tamarack nickel joint venture in central
Minnesota.
MoU with BlueScope to research and design low
emissions processes for the steel value chain,
including iron ore processing, iron and steelmaking
and related technologies.
ELYSIS successfully produced aluminium without
any direct greenhouse emissions at its Industrial
Research and Development Center in Saguenay,
Canada.
Investment in Inobat Auto, a European-based
battery technology and manufacturing company. This
investment will support the completion of InoBat's
research and development centre and pilot battery line.
Launched the construction of the solar and wind
power plant at QMM ilmenite mine operations in Fort
Dauphin, in southern Madagascar.
Purchased four battery-electric trains for use
in the Pilbara, WA. Production is due to commence in
2023 ahead of initial trials in the Pilbara in early 2024.
Partnership with Komatsu to fast-track the
development and implementation of zero-emission
mining haulage solutions, including haul trucks.
MoU with Caterpillar for the development of their
zero-emissions autonomous haul trucks for use at
one of our Western Australian mining operations.
Partnership with Sumitomo to study the construction
of a hydrogen pilot plant at our Yarwun alumina
refinery in Gladstone, Queensland, and to explore
the potential use of hydrogen at the refinery.
Developed a new low-carbon steel process that
aims to replace coking coal with sustainable plant
biomass when converting iron ore fines into steel.
Approval of a new solar farm and battery storage
at Weipa QLD, that will more than triple the local
electricity network's solar generation capacity.
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