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Aluminium for lightweight cars. Copper to help things work more efficiently – from renewables to the power in your home. Iron ore for the steel in our electricity infrastructure. Lithium for electric vehicles and battery storage. And many of the materials we produce are essential for the things in everyday life too: Borates that help crops grow, titanium for paint – and diamonds that celebrate the best things in life.We work in 35 countries – in mines, smelters and refineries, as well as in sales offices, data centres, research and development labs and with artificial intelligence. Our geologists explore the Earth’s wildest terrain. Our wildlife specialists work to protect and conserve grizzly bears in Canada and migratory shorebirds in Western Australia. Our marketing teams make sure our essential materials meet the specific needs of customers around the world. And we are home to one of the world’s largest robots and maybe one of the smallest – we call him Mark.
The transition to a low carbon world offers a unique opportunity for us to grow, and to play an important role in tackling this global challenge. We know we have a major carbon footprint, significant scope 1 and 2 emissions and material indirect scope 3 emissions. We must switch to renewables at scale, electrify everything we can electrify, work across our entire value chain and accelerate the development of new technology.
We were founded in 1873, on the banks of the Rio Tinto river in Andalusia, Spain. We are proud of everything we have achieved. At Rio Tinto, we know our future is even brighter than our past.

Pioneer in safeguarding the future
A successful business model with a sustainable impact
Reusing discarded products and materials as a source of raw materials - when ALBA was launched in 1968, this idea was considered a desirable but unrealistic utopia. From the very beginning, ALBA saw more in waste than annoying disposable products and invested early on in technologies to process the recyclable materials they contained. Because we already recognized at that time: This secures the future of Germany as an industrial location. And a clean environment secures the future of mankind.
As early as the beginning of the 1970s, we started to collect and recycle glass, paper and cardboard separately in Berlin. We came up with the "Berlin Model" - the separation of recyclables according to material fractions, which is what makes high-quality recycling possible in the first place and is now used throughout Germany.