South Africa’s Hillside Aluminium continuing to go all out to decarbonise – South32
While ‘high-carbon’ is the value-lowering label being put on aluminium from South Africa’s Hillside Aluminium in KwaZulu-Natal, the Sydney-, Johannesburg- and London-listed South32 benefits from the value-enhancing 'low-carbon' premium status of its other two aluminium producers, namely Brazil Aluminium and Mozal Aluminium. The carbon-intensive description given to Hillside stems from its use of coal-fired electricity, but the good news is that competitive decarbonisation is continuing to be intensively investigated for Hillside, the largest aluminium smelter in the southern hemisphere and the producer of a good percentage of primary aluminium for South Africa’s value-adding secondary aluminium product producers.
While ‘high-carbon’ is the value-lowering label being put on aluminium from South Africa’s Hillside Aluminium in KwaZulu-Natal, the Sydney-, Johannesburg- and London-listed South32 benefits from the value-enhancing 'low-carbon' premium status of its other two aluminium producers, namely Brazil Aluminium and Mozal Aluminium. The carbon-intensive description given to Hillside stems from its use of coal-fired electricity, but the good news is that competitive decarbonisation is continuing to be intensively investigated for Hillside, the largest aluminium smelter in the southern hemisphere and the producer of a good percentage of primary aluminium for South Africa’s value-adding secondary aluminium product producers.
