Formed in January 1996, Alcoa Australia Rolled Products is a 50:50 partnership between Kobe Steel Limited of Japan – Japan’s leading producer of rolled aluminium – and Alcoa Inc. – the world’s leading producer of aluminium and alumina.

Alcoa Australia Rolled Products business is aluminium rolled products.  We manufacture aluminium cansheet, for the production of beverage cans, aluminium foil, and common alloy sheet and coil. In addition, Alcoa Australia Rolled Products provides a comprehensive range of common alloy and foil products for use in the marine, construction and packaging industries. The formation of Alcoa Australia Rolled Products has drawn the world’s most advanced rolling technology from the United States and Japan, anchored it in a highly skilled Australian workforce, and backed it with unlimited access to the quality systems, research and development capabilities and expertise of its joint venture partners.

With operations at Point Henry near Geelong in Victoria, and Yennora in western Sydney, New South Wales, Alcoa Australia Rolled Products has more than 800 employees and a payroll of over $60 million.

Annual sales revenue is around $645 million. Exports provide a growing portion of this revenue with an anticipated $306 million. This export focus has a positive impact on Australia’s balance of trade with only one dollar spent overseas for every ten earned in export revenue.

Recycling

Alcoa Australia Rolled Products  is dedicated to product stewardship and is one of the original signatories to the Packaging Covenant, a significant policy initiative in managing used packaging products. The covenant includes shared responsibility for a product’s lifecycle and aims to minimise environmental impact from manufacture to disposal. It works with all sectors involved in a packaging product’s life cycle to minimise the environmental impact of consumer packaging waste, promote close-the-loop recycling and develop economically viable and sustainable recycling collection systems.

Alcoa Australia Rolled Products operates the country’s largest remelting facility at its Yennora site and recycles approximately 55,000 tpa of scrap aluminium.  

Aluminium can recycling reuses a valuable resource and conserves energy.  Of the 3 billion aluminium cans sold annually in Australia 68.5 percent, or approximately 1.9 billion, are recycled. Alcoa Australia Rolled Products  processes 1.2 billion of these cans through its remelt furnace annually, playing a significant role by reducing industry requirements for natural resources and diverting waste from landfill.

Metal sourced from recycled cans requires only five percent of the energy needed to mine, refine and smelt primary aluminium (excluding transport energy).