Volkswagen Slovakia heads for CO2 neutrality, Auto Information, ET Auto

New Delhi: As a part of the Group and Volkswagen model, Volkswagen Slovakia is the primary of the Group’s multi-brand websites to hitch the Aluminium Closed Loop venture. This entails the recycling of aluminium stamping offcuts from the press store, that are returned to the provider of the aluminium rolls. The aluminium offcuts are reprocessed on the provider to allow them to be returned to manufacturing with none lack of high quality. Using secondary aluminium saves as much as 95% of power in comparison with major aluminium.

Presently, a big proportion of the elements for the our bodies of the SUV fashions– Volkswagen Touareg, Audi Q7, Audi Q8, Porsche Cayenne and Porsche Cayenne Coupé– are pressed right here. These embody exterior pores and skin elements, roofs, add-on elements, hoods and tailgates, wings, doorways, window frames and extra.

“The excessive power demand will be minimized, amongst different issues, through the use of recycled supplies, thereby contributing to a greater environmental stability of our automobile tasks even earlier than our personal automobile manufacturing begins,” explains Michaela Hletková Ploszeková, Head of the Environmental Division at Volkswagen Slovakia.

The Aluminium Closed Loop was launched at Audi’s Neckarsulm web site in 2017. The venture is at present working at 4 of the Group’s websites the place press vegetation with a excessive proportion of aluminium elements are positioned. Additional areas will observe, the corporate mentioned.

In 2021, the Aluminium Closed Loop venture was chargeable for a discount of greater than 195,000 tons of CO2 on stability for the manufacturing of Audi fashions alone. Since its introduction in 2017, these whole financial savings have amounted to greater than 725,000 tons of CO2.

“Due to the separation and cleansing processes within the manufacturing course of in addition to on the recycler, the stamping waste from the press store for recycling within the Aluminium Closed Loop achieves a purity degree of 99.9%. Within the pilot yr, the corporate managed to ship greater than 6,600 tons of aluminium offcuts to the Aluminium Closed Loop venture regardless of fluctuating manufacturing because of the tough international state of affairs. We wish to proceed to progressively enhance this share,” mentioned Stanislav Novák, Head of the Press Store Specialist Group.

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