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May 30, 2025
Expanding Low-Carbon Cable Solutions with EcoLum® and Electrified Logistics
In 2025, Alcoa and Prysmian, a global leader in power and telecommunications cable systems, strengthened their sustainability collaboration by extending their EcoLum® supply agreement through 2026.
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May 30, 2025
ELYSIS Achieves Commercial-Scale Breakthrough in Carbon-Free Smelting Technology
In November, ELYSIS® successfully started up a 450 kiloampere (kA) inert anode cell at Rio Tinto’s Alma smelter – marking the first deployment of this technology at this amperage globally and initiating a new phase of industrial-scale testing.
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May 30, 2025
Ball Corporation and Unilever – Advancing Low-Carbon Packaging with ELYSIS®
Building on our long-standing partnership with Ball, a global leader in aluminum packaging, Alcoa expanded its collaboration in 2025 through a joint pilot with Ball and Unilever to produce the firstever personal care and home care packaging made with ELYSIS® carbon-free smelting aluminum.
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May 30, 2025
Digitizing Biodiversity: Seedling Nursery Management in Brazil
At Alcoa Corporation’s Poços de Caldas operations in Brazil, our Seedling Nursery plays a vital role in mine rehabilitation, environmental compensation planting, and community seedling donations.
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May 30, 2025
Advancing Knowledge to Support Rehabilitation of a Living Forest: Alcoa’s Forest Research Centre
In Western Australia’s Northern Jarrah Forest, where Alcoa operates, maintaining biodiversity and supporting effective mine rehabilitation requires strong scientific understanding.
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May 30, 2025
W.O.W. Team: Driving Waste Reduction at Lake Charles
At Alcoa Corporation’s Lake Charles facility, a cross-functional employeeled initiative is turning continuous improvement into measurable environmental impact. Launched two years ago, the W.O.W. Team – Wipe Out Waste – brings together hourly and salaried employees to identify waste at its source and implement practical solutions across the plant.
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May 30, 2025
Brazil Circular Economy Roadmap
In 2025, Alcoa Brazil advanced its Circular Economy Roadmap, establishing an integrated approach to rethinking waste management across operations in Juruti, São Luís, and Poços de Caldas.
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May 30, 2025
Western Australia Mining Tire and Conveyor Recycling Program
In September 2025, we implemented a recycling solution for end-of-life conveyor belts from our Western Australian mining operations. Following feasibility work conducted in 2024, the first reels were delivered to Tyrecycle’s East Rockingham facility, where the rubber is processed into crumb suitable for a range of uses, including as an additive in road construction.
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May 30, 2025
Promoting Hearing Health – International Noise Awareness Day at Mosjøen Smelter
In April 2025, Alcoa’s Mosjøen Smelter marked International Noise Awareness Day with a site-wide initiative focused on hearing protection and long-term health.
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May 30, 2025
Safety First, Community Impact: Stop and Seek Help in North America
At Alcoa, a strong safety culture begins with a simple expectation: every employee has both the right and the responsibility to stop work if something does not seem safe and seek help before continuing.
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May 30, 2025
Inclusion Groups Impact Fund: Local Action, Shared Impact
At Alcoa, Inclusion extends beyond the workplace through employee leadership and community connection. Our Inclusion Groups – AWN, AWARE, ABLE, and EAGLE – play an important role in fostering belonging and engagement, and in 2025, their impact expanded through an employee driven approach to community investment.
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May 30, 2025
Community Engagement Highlights: Brazil
In Brazil, we continue to build transparency, collaboration, and trust with local communities. At Alumar, work is underway to develop a multi-stakeholder governance forum to support regional development planning in São Luís, with a focus on improving coordination of infrastructure and social investment.
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May 30, 2025
Community Engagement Highlights: Australia
In Australia, we deepened a place-based approach to engagement, focusing on being present in local communities and connecting directly where people live and work. Efforts emphasized grassroots outreach through local events, face-to-face conversations, and site tours, with more than 2,400 community members, stakeholders, and partners visiting operational and rehabilitation areas.
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May 30, 2025
Community Engagement Highlights: North America
In North America, we strengthened local engagement through the launch of a revised complaints mechanism. At the Lake Charles operation, site leadership met with several neighboring residents who had raised concerns about dust impacts.
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May 30, 2025
Community Engagement Highlights: Europe
In Europe, at San Ciprián, we expanded engagement with residents in neighboring municipalities to share information about ongoing and proposed refinery residue storage area expansion projects.
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May 30, 2025
Advancing Indigenous Cultural Awareness in North America
Building Indigenous cultural awareness is a core social performance priority for Alcoa in North America as we strengthen relationships with Indigenous communities on whose traditional territories, ancestral, or treaty lands the Company operates.
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May 30, 2025
Strengthening Ties with Our Aboriginal Partners in Australia
In 2025, Alcoa continued to engage with Indigenous stakeholders in Australia, focusing on ongoing discussions about environmental impacts and project approvals. This engagement was primarily through the Gnaala Karla Booja Aboriginal Corporation (GKB AC), consisting of a series of workshops exploring in detail the key environmental factors identified through the approvals process.
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May 30, 2025
Working toward Free, Prior and Informed Consent (FPIC) in Brazil
In 2025, the Alcoa Juruti Mine strengthened its commitment to respecting the rights of Indigenous and Traditional Communities by consolidating its Consultation and Agreement Procedure, aligned with the principle of FPIC.
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May 30, 2025
Strengthening a Lower-Carbon Logistics Corridor in Brazil
Alcoa is strengthening its supply chain in Brazil through a new multimodal logistics corridor that combines rail and road transport to move aluminum ingots from our Alumar perations in Maranhão to customers in the Southeast.
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