Green Aluminium Extrusions - Breakthrough Development in Sustainability from UAE to the World

In this paper we would like to showcase our journey with Masdar Green City, Abu Dhabi UAE, where we embarked together to actively develop sustainable building materials and processes which considerably reduce the total carbon footprint and provide a replicable commercial resource. We will show in the paper how we worked with the Supply Chain team of Masdar to analyze the entire product life cycle of aluminum extrusions in particular. This involved extensive studies on where carbon savings can be made, analysis of more efficient production processes, logistic plans, producing locally wherever possible and by introducing more recycled material and renewable energy into the production process. The objective was clear - to find a sustainable material of choice which will have low carbon emissions and less embodied energy consumed for production. But, the Middle East region poised a very interesting challenge for us to embark on this journey - Low energy costs which supported extraction and production of aluminum in the region and lack of available aluminum scrap segregation centres to secure post-consumer/end of life aluminum. In this abstract, we would like to showcase the process, supply chain strategy, alloy strength study of recycled aluminum and the meticulous steps taken by our Research team to identify the right production strategy for green aluminum extrusions. Furthermore, we would like to highlight the life cycle analysis study we conducted using third party agency to verify the methodology used by us and validate the efforts put into developing green aluminum extrusions.

Keywords:

green aluminium extrusions , post-consumer recycled aluminium , CO2 Emissions