“The main objectives of RecAL are twofold. First, technological challenges and solution concepts were identified that would create a large and sustainable impact in the field of aluminium recycling, ranging from impurity-tolerant alloy compositions for high-volume applications to advanced digital concepts for traceability of value streams” says AIT expert Clemens Simson about the European project RecAL (Recycling technologies for circular ALuminium), coordinated by LKR Leichtmetallkompetenzzentrum Ranshofen of AIT Austrian Institute of Technology. “Second, the so-called RecAL Circularity Hub will be developed to be a platform that can bring together all stakeholders in the aluminium recycling market, similar to modern vendor platforms. The basis for this will be a unified language – a robust ontology for recycled aluminium.”
Clemens Simson's detailed interview with the international expert journal “Waste Management World” can be read here: