Aluminium, a strategic metal for environmental transition
The demand for aluminium products, or products with aluminium as part of their composition, continues to grow year on year. Aluminium is gradually replacing other materials thanks to a unique combination of properties that make this metal a strategic component in the environmental transition.
Three times lighter than steel or copper, aluminium makes it possible to considerably reduce product weight, especially that of motor vehicles, in which the proportion of aluminium is continuously and significantly increasing.
Extremely strong mechanically and naturally protected from corrosion, aluminium is also totally impermeable, even at the smallest thicknesses. It is odourless and tasteless, making it a solid, light and leak tight envelope that is highly appreciated, especially in the food packaging sector.
Aluminium is also a good conductor of both heat and electricity.
On the thermal side, it is used in many cooling systems. It also has twice the electrical conductivity of copper for the same weight, and is widely used in long-distance, high-voltage electricity transport applications.
Malleable, it can be worked at low temperatures and shaped without breaking, and it can be given a wide variety of shapes.
Finally, aluminium
is 100% recyclable
Without loss of its properties. Its recycling, which only requires 5% of the energy used to produce the primary metal, is fully in line with the development of a circular, low carbon economy.