Sustainable aluminium solutions for the Coca-Cola Company
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Novelis enters into a long-term agreement with Coca-Cola Bottlers' Sales & Services Company (CCBSS), contract partner for The Coca-Cola Company's authorised North American bottlers. Always driven by the intention to create the most sustainable future possible, Novelis aims to establish itself as the leading provider of low-carbon, sustainable aluminium solutions and achieve a full circular economy. To achieve this, the recycler and manufacturer of innovative aluminium products is working with suppliers and customers in the aerospace, automotive, beverage can and speciality industries in North America, Europe, Asia and South America.
Under the new partnership, Novelis will supply Coca-Cola's bottlers with aluminium can sheet for The Coca-Cola Company's iconic brands. Under the agreement, Coca-Cola will purchase a certain amount of aluminium can sheet from Novelis through CCBSS over a number of years. This includes supply from the Novelis plant in Bay Minette, Alabama, which is currently under construction and expected to start operations in 2025.
Partnership for a sustainable future
The long-term partnership also includes a closed-loop recycling agreement, underlining both companies' commitment to sustainability. Through closed-loop recycling programmes, Novelis directly takes back the production waste generated during can manufacturing, recycles it and converts it into new can sheet, which is then made into new beverage cans. In addition to this continuous cycle, Novelis recycles more than 80 billion used beverage cans each year into new aluminium for beverage packaging. This results in lower carbon products – after all, recycling aluminium is about 95% less energy intensive than producing primary aluminium, resulting in 95% less carbon emissions.
Novelis expects demand for aluminium beverage can sheet to grow at a compound annual growth rate of 3% until 2031. This growth will be driven by consumer preference for more sustainable products and size variety, as well as the increasing number of beverage types packaged in cans – including water, energy drinks, sodas, beer, wine, seltzer and ready-to-drink cocktails. The strength of the aluminium beverage packaging market is already evident in the fact that most of the capacity at Novelis' Bay Minette plant for beverage cans is already contracted. The new, low-carbon plant will be the first fully integrated aluminium production and recycling facility built in the US in nearly 40 years. With an initial capacity of 600,000 tonnes of finished products for the North American can and automotive markets, the plant will be powered by renewable energy, use recycled water and operate as a zero-waste facility. In addition, Novelis aims to achieve net carbon neutrality at Bay Minette.
One of Coca-Cola's goals with its bottlers is to build a resilient domestic supply chain that enables sustainable long-term growth. As a leader in sustainability, Novelis will support the goals for a world without waste by 2030.
"This new long-term contract builds on a decades-long relationship between Novelis and the Coca-Cola system and strengthens Novelis' position as a leading supplier of aluminium for beverage cans," explains Steve Fisher, President and CEO of Novelis. "This agreement confirms our investment in expanding rolling and recycling capacity in North America and solidifies a strong future for sustainable aluminium as the material of choice for beverage packaging."
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