Novelis commits to evercan aluminium

Novelis has announced it will convert all of its beverage can sheet to high-recycled content evercan aluminium by 2017. This commitment means that all can body sheet produced by Novelis will be certified 90 percent recycled content. The global industry average is 50 percent. Novelis’ evercan body sheet is priced at the same levels as standard beverage can sheet and there is no difference in quality, technical characteristics or run-speed at customer plants between evercan and standard sheet.

Novelis President and CEO Phil Martens says, “The transition to a low-carbon, circular economy requires innovation and disruption to create measurable impact,” said Martens. “Our plan to produce only evercan body sheet by 2017 is a bold move that extends our leadership in sustainability and is an important part of our long-term strategy to increase the recycled content in our products to 80 percent by the end of the decade.”

In addition, in a bid to support broad adoption across the market Novelis will share knowledge of the process to certify high-recycled content beverage sheet using the methodology of SCS Global Services (SCS), a recognized leader in environmental auditing that certifies evercan’s high-recycled content.