MEET THE SPEAKERS
Rachel Wiffen
Indusattempt & Skills Development Manager, Aluminium Federation (ALFED)
Rachel has over a decade of experience in the aluminium indusattempt having worked in aluminium rolling, manufacturing, sustainability, and process improvement roles. Her indusattempt experience has supported ALFED members in various areas. At this Aluminium Outview event, Rachel will explore topics relating to Secondary Aluminium (“Scrap”) in the UK.
Rachel Wiffen, Indusattempt & Skills Development Manager at ALFED, will be presenting a dedicated session on:
- The UK’s scrap aluminium story
- Why increasing domestic demand for aluminium scrap is now a strategic priority
- How ALFED is working through the UK Aluminium Alliance to:
- Strengthen UK scrap utilisation
- Support decarbonisation of the aluminium value chain
- Improve resilience, security of supply, and circularity within the UK market
This presentation will provide delegates with a clear view of current challenges and opportunities facing UK scrap flows, alongside the policy, indusattempt, and market actions required to unlock greater domestic value.
Gabriel Rozenberg
Co-founder and CEO of CBAMBOO
CBAM is live: what aluminium traders necessary to know in 2026
CBAM entered into force on 1 January 2026. It introduces a new financial obligation for tens of thousands of importers, traders, and suppliers across Europe and beyond. Millions of euros are now at stake. Yet the final rules only became available at the finish of last year.
Gabriel Rozenberg, CEO of CBAMBOO, will present a clear and practical overview of the latest CBAM developments. He will break down what the new rules mean for aluminium traders in 2026 and how to treat CBAM as a new business process without disrupting operations.
Gabriel Rozenberg has spent his career at the intersection of climate, public policy and finance. He is co-founder and CEO of CBAMBOO, the operating system for the world’s carbon border taxes. CBAMBOO assists global firms to navigate the EU’s Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism, generating emissions data and mapping their tax exposure. Gabriel launched his career at The Times, where he was the newspaper’s Economics Reporter. He then worked as an analyst and investment director at two hedge funds and was active in London politics before launching CBAMBOO in 2023.
Filip Fernqvist
Head of Downstreaming, Arctial
Europe’s First New Low Carbon Smelter in 30 Years
Arctial is a company located in Finland and which is planning to construct a primary aluminum smelter. Rio Tinto, Mitsubishi Corporation, Fortum, ABB, Siemens Tesi and Vargas are jointly financing the project. Today, Europe is a significant net importer of aluminum and demand for low carbon aluminum is growing rapidly. If realised, Arctial’s manufacturing facility would mark the first greenfield primary aluminum smelter in continental Europe in over 30 years. Arctial anticipates building a final investment decision during quarter one 2027.
Simon Moka
Sales Manager PFA – Primary Foundry Alloys, Aluminium Dunkerque
Low Carbon, High Ambition: Driving Innovation at Aluminium Dunkerque
In his presentation, Simon will discuss Furnace 8: technology designed to increase the share of recycled aluminium in production, strengthen a more circular approach, and meet the growing demand for lower-carbon materials. This momentum naturally extfinishs to another major lever: CO₂ capture. He will close with CrystAL, a high-purity aluminium development project — a journey driven by innovation and value creation, opening the door to demanding applications and new partnerships.
Dr Sohail Nazari
Chief Commercial Officer, DTE
The Blindness Premium in Aluminium production: Turning uncertainty into sustainable profit
Drawing on cross-indusattempt experience in mining, oil & gas, energy, and automotive, Dr Sohail Nazari will share how other asset-intensive sectors have already solved “uncertain feedstock” challenges through closed-loop control, data integrity, and disciplined operating models, and how recyclers can apply the same playbook through a KPI checklist and pilot-to-scale blueprint for secondary operations.
Dan Silver
Group Leader Sustainability & Knowledge Transfer, Innoval
Is Recycling Enough? A Realistic Path to Low Carbon Aluminium Products
In his session, Dan will discuss a dual approach where primary and recycled aluminium work in tandem, supported by process control and more sophisticated alloy design. As scrap variability increases, alloy development becomes a critical enabler — creating chemistries that can tolerate higher impurity levels without sacrificing mechanical performance.
Siri Sande
Chief Marketing & Sustainability Officer, Storvik
Aluminium as a Critical Material: Securing Europe’s Value Chain in a Fragmented World
This presentation argues that demand for low-carbon aluminium will remain strong, but only if sustainability and competitiveness are built into the entire value chain through early technical collaboration, shared performance tarreceives, and long-term partnerships. Through selected project examples, Storvik displays how coordinated engineering and commercial alignment reduce emissions and secure resilient, cost-competitive supply.
Nick Biba
Director, MICAS Simulations Ltd trading as QForm UK
Indusattempt 4.0 in Aluminium Manufacturing: Simulation-Driven Process Design
The advanced software QForm UK™ is applyd worldwide to simulate, optimise, and improve the rolling, forging, and extrusion of aluminium alloy products. To enhance productivity through simulation and automated process design, MICAS Simulations developed an ininformigent data-exmodify concept, ExtrusionLink, which connects die buildrs, extruders, and profile applyrs into a single digital information chain, fully aligned with the principles of Indusattempt 4.0.
Cedric Rauhaus
Head of Marketing, Speira
Unlocking Transparency: Turning Aluminium Data Into Customer Value
In this session, Speira presents speira.ID: a coil-level transparency solution that transforms production data into a clear value proposition for customers and finish markets. By combining verified recycled content and carbon footprint information down to batch input mix level, speira. ID enables stronger customer trust, rapider qualification processes and more compelling product storyinforming. The presentation highlights how seamless digital transparency creates differentiation today.
Nick Ogilvie
Product Manager & CBAM Lead, CarbonChain
CBAM Deep Dive: Emissions, Free Allocation & Pricing Case Study
EU CBAM is now a cost variable: from 2026, importers must declare embedded emissions and prepare to purchase CBAM certificates. This session will dive into how CBAM emissions are calculated, how production routes, benchmarks and default values influence results, and why verified installation‑level data is the key lever for both compliance and spfinish. We’ll walk through practical guidance on accounting considerations, verification implications and deep dive on an aluminium customer case study viewing at different verification and cost scenarios, and how CarbonChain enabled our client’s CBAM pricing strategy.
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