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Did you know that Ford is the largest automotive aluminum recycler in the world? Recycling up to 20 million pounds of aluminum each month in our facilities helps us hit a sustainability triple-play by reducing waste, conserving natural resources and saving a significant amount of energy that otherwise would have gone into extracting and producing the material from primary sources.
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The 20 million pounds of aluminum recycled each month from our Dearborn Stamping, Kentucky Truck, and Buffalo Stamping facilities represents approximately 25% of our aluminum sheet coil purchases.
Working closely with our aluminum sheet suppliers, we are supporting an innovative, closed-loop recycling system that recovers aluminum scrap during parts stamping and keeps various aluminum alloys separated so they can be recycled back into fresh alloy for our new vehicles. It’s the industrial-scale embodiment of “reduce, re-use and recycle.” In addition, making recycled aluminum only takes around 5% of the energy needed to make new aluminum, according to the Aluminum Association. This is a significant energy savings, which is important to our reaching carbon neutrality across Ford vehicles, operations, and supply chain no later than 2050.
Ford’s purpose has always been bigger than building vehicles. We are driven by a desire to build a better world: To improve the lives of our people, the communities we call home, and the planet we all share.
Building a strong, sustainable business takes commitment, effort, and persistence.
It’s going to take work. But that’s what we do best. This is the road we’re on at Ford. The Road to Better.
Check out the @FordOnline story here. Read more in the Road to Better Fact Book.
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