Audi has detailed how it is introducing closed-loop systems to its plants as part of its goal to make all its five plants carbon-neutral by 2025. This includes aluminium, wastewater and a pilot project for chemical recycling of plastics.
In a virtual ‘TechTalk’ event about how the OEM hopes to achieve carbon neutrality for its production operations, Audi said that introducing a closed loop for aluminium offcuts had reduced CO2 output at its stamping plants by 150,000 tons since the start of the programme in 2019 by saving up to 95% energy compared to the use of primary aluminium.
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