Apple buys first-ever carbon-free aluminium from Alcoa-Rio Tinto venture

(Reuters) - Apple Inc on Thursday said it has bought the first-ever commercial batch of carbon-free aluminium from a joint venture between two of the world's biggest aluminium suppliers. The metal is being made by Elysis, a Montreal-based joint venture of Alcoa Corp and Rio Tinto announced last year with $144 million (£112.24 million) in funding from the two companies, Apple and the governments of Canada and Quebec. The aluminium will be shipped this month from an Alcoa research facility in..