GTIP participants

UC RUSAL, the aluminium and alumina producer, and the International Aluminium Institute (IAI), have announced participants for this year's Global Technology and Innovation Project (GTIP).

GTIP is a scheme designed to promote innovative and sustainable applications for aluminium products. Over the next three years, UC RUSAL and IAI will award $2m to research projects that can demonstrate sustainable use of aluminium in the areas of transport, construction and packaging.

The committee, comprised of UC RUSAL, IAI and Yale University’s professor Thomas Graedel, selected Curtin University in Australia, Russia’s Nizhny Novgorod State Technical University and Moscow Institute of Steel and Alloys to receive funding for their projects involving the application of aluminium in transport. The grants will be provided in 2009 and UC RUSCAL expects prototypes to be available in the next two years.

Curtin University, which is to receive a grant of $180,000, will carry out research into the use of aluminium for hydrogen storage.