Do we count our own aluminium scrap that we remelt in our cast house in the CBAM figure?
Not as a precursor. Scrap made and remelted inside your own installation is part of your own production loop: count the fuel used to remelt it, and do not add the scrap again as an input. Count only aluminium that leaves as product.
Why not count it twice
Internal scrap was already counted when the metal first entered the installation. Adding it again as an input would double count the same aluminium.
What does count
- Fuel for remelting furnaces and holding furnaces.
- Unwrought aluminium bought in, as a precursor.
- Scrap bought from outside, which carries zero embedded emissions.
Records
Track metal in and out of the cast house: purchased ingot, outside scrap, internal scrap and finished output. A simple monthly balance shows the verifier nothing is counted twice.
What Senseible does here
Senseible reads fuel, electricity and production documents into dated, fingerprinted installation records, the starting point for the actual emissions an EU importer asks for.
Sources: CBAM Regulation (EU) 2023/956, consolidated, Implementing Regulation (EU) 2023/1773, monitoring rules
Last reviewed 2026-10-22.