Kawneer Architectural Products Featured At Lucas Oil Stadium; Alcoa
Foundation Promotes Recycling
PITTSBURGH–Alcoa (NYSE: AA) will be at Super Bowl XLVI this Sunday in Indianapolis,
Ind., in more ways than one. The award-winning Lucas Oil Stadium, host
site of the Super Bowl football game, features several products made by
Alcoa’s Kawneer architectural aluminum products business. Alcoa
Foundation is also contributing to the big game by helping the City of
Indianapolis “go-green” by encouraging football fans to recycle their
aluminum beverage cans.
Every visitor—including the lucky 67,000 fans with Super Bowl
tickets—will pass through Kawneer’s 500 Tuffline® brand entrances as
they go into the stadium. The Kawneer brand of frames, doors and
hardware is designed to withstand high-traffic areas. In addition, more
than 225,000 square feet of Kawneer’s curtain wall, which uses glass
extensively, provides spectators with a magnificent view of the
Indianapolis skyline from their seats.
Kawneer’s mark on Lucas Oil Stadium continues on the interior, where
even more entrances and curtain wall systems are featured, as well as
Kawneer sliding doors. These recyclable aluminum architectural products
were produced at Alcoa plants in Springdale, Arkansas; Bloomsburg,
Pennsylvania; and Visalia, California.
While Kawneer products have helped with the design of the stadium, Alcoa
Foundation is making sure fans have a place to recycle their aluminum
beverage cans. Through an Alcoa Foundation grant, the Indiana Recycling
Coalition has been working closely with the 2012 Super Bowl
Environmental Programs Committee to ”keep score” on recycling. In
addition, the investment has enabled the coalition to purchase recycling
bins and place them throughout the stadium and other public venues,
making it easy for people to dispose of their recyclable aluminum
containers responsibly. After the game, the bins will be donated to
non-profit groups and youth sports programs in Indiana.
The Alcoa Foundation’s investment focuses on increasing awareness about
the infinite recyclability of aluminum beverage cans, while also
encouraging greater awareness about recycling “away from home” and “at
home” while watching Super Bowl XLVI. The aluminum cans collected and
recycled this weekend in Indianapolis and across the U.S. will be back
on store shelves in 60 days as new aluminum beverage cans.
About Alcoa
Alcoa is the world’s leading producer of primary
and fabricated aluminum, as well as the world’s largest miner of bauxite
and refiner of alumina. In addition to inventing the modern-day aluminum
industry, Alcoa innovation has been behind major milestones in the
aerospace, automotive, packaging, building and construction, commercial
transportation, consumer electronics and industrial markets over the
past 120 years. Among the solutions Alcoa markets are flat-rolled
products, hard alloy extrusions, and forgings, as well as Alcoa® wheels,
fastening systems, precision and investment castings, and building
systems in addition to its expertise in other light metals such as
titanium and nickel-based super alloys. Sustainability is an integral
part of Alcoa’s operating practices and the product design and
engineering it provides to customers. Alcoa has been a member of the Dow
Jones Sustainability Index for 10 consecutive years and approximately 75
percent of all of the aluminum ever produced since 1888 is still in
active use today. Alcoa employs approximately 61,000 people in 31
countries across the world. More information can be found at www.alcoa.com.
About Alcoa Foundation
Alcoa Foundation is one of the
largest corporate foundations in the U.S., with assets of approximately
US$446 million. Founded more than 50 years ago, Alcoa Foundation has
invested more than US$550 million since 1952. In 2011, Alcoa Foundation
contributed more than US$20 million to nonprofit organizations
throughout the world, building innovative partnerships, engaging its
people to improve the environment and educating tomorrow’s leaders. The
work of Alcoa Foundation is further enhanced by Alcoa’s thousands of
employee volunteers who share their energy, passion and purpose to make
a difference in the communities where Alcoa operates. Through the
company’s signature Month of Service program, in 2011, a record 56
percent of Alcoa employees took part in more than 1,200 events across 24
countries, reaching 81,000 children, serving 9,000 meals, planting
34,000 trees and supporting 1,800 nonprofit organizations. More
information can be found at www.alcoafoundation.com.