Recycled aluminium is Jaguar’s way of saving the planet
Jaguar’s aluminum construction isn’t just about lightness, although to you and I that’s what we think most about when aiming the nose at a set of bends or attempting to eke out additional mileage.
Twelve months into their innovative closed-loop recycling process and Jaguar has reclaimed 50 000 tons of metal. To put that into perspective it would be the equivalent of 200 000 Jaguar XE bodyshells. Other models that contribute to the cause include the Jaguar F-Pace (coming to SA later this year) and the recently launched Jaguar XF.
Recycled aluminium will begin to play a major role in automotive production. JLR’s engineering director Nick Rogers said of the announcement: “Innovation is at the heart of everything we do at Jaguar Land Rover. We are driven by the desire to produce increasingly world-class, lightweight, vehicles, but we also want to be world leading in how we build them.”
“The success so far marks a significant step towards our goal of having up to 75% recycled aluminium content in our vehicle body structures by 2020.”
An investment of 7 million Euros has resulted in 11 press shops that segregate waste aluminium to be returned to the production process. Jaguar maintains that this way of construction is 95% better off than sourcing from primary aluminium.
