American aluminium packaging firm Ball Corporation announced this month a collaboration with Cervejaria Masterpiece to market the world’s first beverage can with the Aluminium Stewardship Institute’s (ASI) logo to mark the containers as being produced with responsibly-sourced aluminium. The container will hold Donatello...
The Aluminium Stewardship Initiative (ASI) announced earlier this month that Emirates Global Aluminium’s Al Taweelah alumina refinery has been certified...
The Aluminium Stewardship Initiative (ASI) welcomed Swiss extrusion press manufacturer Alu Menziken Group as its latest Production and Transformation member....
The Aluminium Stewardship Initiative (ASI) rose its membership to 300 last week when it welcomed Wyda South Africa into the...
The Aluminium Stewardship Initiative (ASI) this week certified Alcoa’s smelting and casting operations at Portland, Australia under its Performance Standard V2 (2017) Certification for sustainable production. The site has a nameplate production capacity of 358 thousand metric tons per year. It is a joint venture among Alcoa of Australia Limited, CITIC Nominees Pty Ltd., and […]
The Aluminium Stewardship Initiative (ASI) announced last week the inclusion of new Production and Transformation member Oman Aluminium Rolling Company (OARC). Chartered in 2011, OARC is a green field aluminium rolling mill in Oman. The plant in the Sohar Industrial Estate has a nameplate capacity of 140 thousand metric tons of rolled aluminium per year, […]
The Aluminium Stewardship Initiative (ASI) announced last week the certification of Aluminij Industries d.o.o.’s Bosnian operations under the third version of its Performance Standard. The plant, which produces aluminium billet, slab, and small ingot, is the first such certification from a company headquartered in Bosnia and Herzegovina. It has an annual production capacity of over […]
The Aluminium Stewardship Initiative (ASI) announced last week the certification of Oetinger Aluminium GmbH’s Weißenhorn and Neu-Ulm facilities under the ASI Chain of Custody (CoC) Standard V2 (2022) Certification. This new certification is the first in Europe under the new CoC standard. Both plants together produce about 180 thousand metric tons per year of aluminium […]
The Aluminium Stewardship Initiative (ASI) announced last week the certification of Hydro Precision Tubing Reynosa under its Performance Standard. They Reynosa plant obtained Hydro’s first ASI certification in Mexico. The plant, which is just south of the Rio Grande River, opened in 2006. The 320-strong workforce produces aluminium heat exchange solutions mainly to customers in […]
Earlier this month the United States Congress passed into law President Joe Biden’s US$1.2 trillion infrastructure package. The Investing in a New Vision for the Environment and Surface Transportation in America Act (or the INVEST in America Act) will allocate US$550 billion ...
2020 was supposed to be “year of climate action”, with the Glasgow COP26 acting as a major milestone for both ...
Between October 28 and November 1st, London hosted the traditional London Metals Exchange (LME) Week gathering of analysts, brokers, traders ...
Base metals prices reacted positively to the progress registered in the latest round of US – China trade talks in ...
