Alcoa, Rio Tinto announce scale-up of zero-carbon Elysis aluminium technology

Elysis, a joint-venture project between Alcoa and Rio Tinto to eliminate the emission of greenhouse gases from the industrial aluminium smelting process, has moved to the next stage of production, the companies jointly announced on Thursday November 4.

Elysis is led by Alcoa and Rio Tinto, with additional investment from the governments of Canada and Quebec.
It is working to commercialize a new technology to produce aluminium that eliminates all direct greenhouse gases from the traditional smelting process and instead produces oxygen through its inert anode, zero-carbon smelting technology. 

"The production of aluminium at the Elysis Industrial Research and Development Center marks the achievement of a significant...

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