ALFED is pleased to confirm that the UK Aluminium Alliance (UKAA) Report has now been formally distributed to participating members, stakeholders, OEMs and wider industry partners following more than 12 months of collaborative development work across the aluminium value chain.
Developed in partnership with Connecting for Net Zero (CONETZ), the UKAA framework represents the first structured, industry-led programme designed to bring together recyclers, remelters, processors, distributors, manufacturers, OEMs, researchers and policymakers around a shared strategic vision for the future of UK aluminium.
The intent behind the framework has always been clear: to ensure aluminium is properly recognised within UK industrial strategy and to create a coordinated, evidence-led structure capable of strengthening competitiveness, circularity, domestic processing capability and long-term industrial resilience.
Importantly, the UKAA was not created as a standalone report or one-off initiative. The framework is intended to act as a practical working structure for future policy engagement, sector collaboration and strategic delivery across the industry. As outlined within the report, it has been specifically designed to connect energy, materials, processing, demand, skills, investment and policy into a single coordinated industrial narrative.
The programme has already played an important role in:
- Supporting ALFED’s engagement with DBT and wider Government departments
- Feeding directly into ALFED’s latest policy and strategic positions
- Strengthening the case for aluminium within UK industrial and critical materials discussions
- Developing a stronger evidence base around scrap flows, processing capability and domestic value retention
- Creating new engagement opportunities with OEMs and downstream manufacturers
As many members will know, a key objective of the UKAA has also been to address the long-standing fragmentation across the aluminium value chain and build stronger alignment between upstream, midstream and downstream operations.
This includes creating a more coordinated approach to:
- Secondary raw material and circularity
- Domestic remelting and processing capability
- OEM engagement and procurement pathways
- Energy competitiveness
- CBAM and trade policy
- Investment and infrastructure planning
- Skills and future workforce development
The report is already helping shape ALFED’s forward strategy plans, with many of the identified framework topics now being integrated into Sector Group activity, Trade Committee priorities and wider policy engagement with Government.
Over the coming months, ALFED will continue progressing the next phase of delivery work identified within the framework, including:
- The UK Supply Chain & Scrap Flow Map
- Buyer & OEM roundtables
- Recycled alloy requalification activity
- Investment and infrastructure mapping
- Development of the Secondary Aluminium Handbook
- Continued engagement on industrial energy and competitiveness policy
We would like to thank all members who have contributed insight, expertise, operational evidence and participation throughout the UKAA process so far. This work reflects genuine industry collaboration and has significantly strengthened ALFED’s ability to represent the operational realities and priorities of the UK aluminium sector.
The framework will continue evolving as industry participation grows, and members will remain central to shaping both the direction and delivery of this work going forward.
To see the full report, please see below:
