After almost three years of discussions, the Aluminium Stewardship Initiative (ASI) released updates to its ASI Performance and Chain of Custody Standards, supporting Guidance, Assurance Manual, Claims Guide. and Glossary as By-Laws last week. The revisions are a product of work by...
Trade group Aluminium Stewardship Initiative announced this week the certification of Trimet France’s aluminium operations at Saint-Jean-de-Maurienne and Castelsarrasin under...
Trade group Aluminium Stewardship Initiative announced this week the provisional certification of Alcoa’s Massena smelter, which is the longest continuously-operating...
Trade group Aluminium Stewardship Initiative announced this week the certification of over two dozen Ball Beverage Packaging North and Central...
Trade group Aluminium Stewardship Initiative announced last week the certification of the Mineração Rio do Norte’s bauxite operation in Brazil against its Performance Standard for sustainable aluminium production. MRN’s planning, mining, transport, processing, and river shipment of bauxite ore are all certified under the Performance Standard. So too is its power-generation plant. With an annual […]
Trade group Aluminium Stewardship Initiative certified Gränges’ aluminium casting and rolling plant in Shanghai, China earlier this month under their Chain of Custody Standard Certification. The aluminium plant previously earned the ASI’s Performance Standard Certification in the summer of 2019. Gränges Shanghai aluminium plant primarily produces aluminium strips and plates. The plant specializes in direct […]
Trade group Aluminium Stewardship Initiative announced the provisional certification of OETINGER Aluminium’s Weißenhorn and Neu-Ulm plants in Germany against its Performance Standard for sustainable aluminium production. Based in Germany, OETINGER Aluminium recycles scrap and remelts it into liquid and solid aluminium alloys used in casting houses for products sold to automotive makers, mechanical engineering firms, […]
Trade group Aluminium Stewardship Initiative announced last week that CHALCO Shandong Advanced Material Co., Ltd has joined the organization as a Production and Transformation member. CHALCO Shandong’s inclusion in the Initiative brings the total membership to 206. Headquartered in Zibo, CHALCO Shandong has conducted research and development into and production of fine alumina since the […]
Trade group Aluminium Stewardship Initiative announced this week the certification of Gränges aluminium plant at Finspång against its Chain of Custody standard for sustainable aluminium production. The plant was also given full Performance Standard Certification status, replacing the provisional status it was awarded in February of this year. Gränges Finspång AB designs and manufactures rolled […]
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 ...
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Base metals prices reacted positively to the progress registered in the latest round of US – China trade talks in ...
