An Aston Martin-backed sustainable aluminium project has today been awarded £6million of UK government funding to support the development of lightweight, sustainable aluminium castings, which will be used on Aston Martin vehicles in the future.
The project will focus on the manufacture of the castings, which will be made from recycled material and 90% less carbon intensive than current processes. By using these castings, the business will reduce its carbon footprint while increasing the amount of recycled content in its products. The funding was awarded through the Advanced Propulsion Centre UK as part of Project PIVOT, a collaborative five-partner research and development project backed by Aston Martin.
This is further progress against our ‘Racing. Green.’ sustainability strategy, and follows our entrance into Drive Sustainability, an industry group with a mission to work together to improve the social, ethical, and environmental performance of automotive supply chains.
Roberto Fedeli, Group Chief Technology Officer of Aston Martin, said: “The award of funding from the APC is a major boost to Project PIVOT, which seeks to leverage advanced metal solidification and digital-twin simulations to manufacture low-carbon alloys which will ultimately uplift the level of recycled content we feature in Aston Martin models. We look forward to progressing this project collaboratively with Sarginsons and our other research partners. We thank the APC for their incredible support, following on from their backing of our electrification programme last year.”
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