One hour max talk on sustainability strategy with Ludovic Dardinier, Hydro Aluminium Clervaux

ILA is pleased to hold a series of short 'one hour max talk' with key decision makers who have already walked or have concrete plans to walk the pass to a strategy that fully embeds sustainability. The objective of these talks will be allow these decision makers to very concretely explain their 'sustainability strategy' and most of all provide feedback on what role their boards and the governance model in general has been or is playing in getting there. 

This interview will be hosted by Gaston Trauffler and Raymond Schadeck, both members of the ILA Sustainability Strategy for Boards committee, who will welcome Mr Ludovic Dardinier, Managing Director, Primary Metal, Hydro Aluminium Clervaux S.A.

“The world’s smallest carbon footprint aluminium, made in Clervaux” 

Ludovic Dardinier

Ludovic Dardinier holds degrees in 2 different areas. He is both a civil engineer with a degree from the École des Mines de Saint-Étienne and he holds an executive MBA awarded jointly by ICN and EM Strasbourg.
He started his career working for the Max Planck Institute in Stuttgart before going on to work in the steel industry with Arcelor Mittal. There, Ludovic held several managerial positions in R&D before being in charge of production at several hot rolling mills in France and in Brazil.
In 2008, he started working for Novelis (now Eurofoil), a manufacturer of aluminium sheets in Dudelange, where he held the position of head of operations.
In 2014, he joined Hydro as Managing Director and refurbished the Clervaux foundry (capacity of 120,000 metric tonnes, specialising in aluminium recycling for the construction sector).
Ludovic took part in developing Circal 75R. This product is unique in the market and has the lowest carbon footprint in the world. In 2019, the Clervaux site was awarded a Luxembourg Prize for the Environment. 

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Practical information

Please note the sessions will be recorded.  In principle, this affects mainly the presenters, however if you unmute and talk you could also be recorded.  If you do not want to be on the recording, then please take care not to unmute yourself and refrain from the discussion.   You can still send questions via the chat channel. 

PRIOR TO JOINING:

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• join a few minutes before start

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• if joining late, please do so quietly and stay on mute

• you will be automatically on mute and with your video turned off - please stay muted other that if and when the presenter open the session to questions

Please note that no CPD hours will be allocated to these interviews