Novelis and The Future Is NEUTRAL drive automotive circularity
with new aluminium recycling partnership

The collaboration aims to advance industrial production of automotive skin aluminium alloy with recycled content over 95%.

• Novelis and The Future Is NEUTRAL have joined forces to scale up the industrial production of a circular aluminium alloy containing over 95% recycled content – including more than 50% post-consumer scrap from end-of-life vehicles.
• By integrating greater volumes of post-consumer scrap into the automotive value chain, the collaboration between Novelis and The Future Is NEUTRAL aims to pioneer a new era of circularity in the automotive industry.

ZURICH/ BOULOGNE-BILLANCOURT, June 26, 2025 – Novelis Inc., a leading sustainable aluminium solutions provider and world leader in aluminium rolling and recycling, and The Future Is NEUTRAL, the first 360° circular economy enterprise in the automotive world, announced their collaboration on a circular end-of-life recycling solution. This partnership aims to push the boundaries of recycled content in automotive aluminium sheet to at least 95%, including a minimum of 50% scrap from end-of-life vehicles.

Novelis already supplies carmakers with products made from up to 85% recycled aluminium for outer skin panels and forming-critical applications in vehicles. Building on this success, the partnership between Novelis and The Future Is NEUTRAL seeks to achieve even higher recycled content, leveraging The Future Is NEUTRAL’s expertise in sourcing and segregating end-of-life vehicle scrap.

“At Novelis, we are committed to pushing the boundaries of high recycled content aluminium and reducing the carbon footprint of our solutions,” says Michael Hahne, Vice President, Commercial, Novelis Europe. “By 2030, we aim for 75% average recycled content in our products and to be the lowest emissions flat rolled products (FRP) aluminium provider with less than 3 tonnes CO₂ emissions per tonne of FRP. Collaborations with strong partners like The Future Is NEUTRAL are crucial to achieving these goals by retrieving greater volumes and high-quality aluminium scrap from end-of-life vehicles.”

“Aluminium is an excellent material for reducing the weight of vehicles and batteries,” adds Xavier Kaufman, Chief Business Officer, The Future Is NEUTRAL. “Recycling aluminium uses only 5% of the energy required for primary aluminium production and reduces CO₂ emissions by more than 90%. The automotive industry is increasingly seeking competitive solutions to source low-carbon aluminium. Our goal is to provide them with circular recycled materials sourced from end-of-life vehicles. Our partnership with Novelis enables us to combine our expertise in automotive circularity to serve this purpose and position both companies at the forefront of this initiative.”

Novelis and The Future Is NEUTRAL have signed a Memorandum of Understanding to advance the industrialization of their recycling solution. The partners aim to integrate sufficient volumes of valuable automotive aluminium feedstock from end-of-life vehicles into the value chain to meet the needs of the automotive industry and prevent downcycling.

The companies are jointly seeking to further optimize the quantity and quality of post-consumer automotive aluminium scrap, as well as its transformation processes. The Future Is NEUTRAL has expertise in the collection, dismantling and sorting of end-of-life materials, including aluminium, whilst Novelis is a world leader in aluminium recycling and supplier of innovative, low-carbon aluminium products with high recycled content.

The shared objective is to build a competitive industrial offering of high-recycled-content aluminium automotive sheet made with a maximum of post-consumer scrap from end-of-life vehicles, able to supply the European automotive industry for mass production.

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