Apple iPhone SE gets eco-friendly, to be built using low-carbon aluminum
Author: Nidhi Singal
Apple is purchasing direct carbon-free aluminum following a major advancement in smelting technology to reduce emissions, which it plans to use in its iPhone SE models. The company behind the world’s first direct carbon-free aluminum smelting process, ELYSIS, said that it has produced the commercial-purity primary aluminum for Apple. Unlike traditional method that produces greenhouse gases, this breakthrough technology produces oxygen. And the achievement marks a major milestone in the production of aluminum, one of the world’s most widely used metals. This aluminum was produced by ELYSIS at its Industrial Research and Development Centre in Quebec using hydropower and Apple will purchase this first batch of commercial-purity, low-carbon aluminum.