ASI Certifies Portland Aluminium Under Performance Standard V2
The Aluminium Stewardship Initiative (ASI) this week certified Alcoa’s smelting and casting operations at Portland, Australia under its Performance Standard...
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Aluminium Stewardship Initiative Welcomes 300th Member In Wyda South Africa
The Aluminium Stewardship Initiative (ASI) rose its membership to 300 last week when it welcomed Wyda South Africa into the fold. Wyda South Africa enters ASI as an Industrial User. ASI reached its 300th member less than two years after reaching its...
Aluminium Stewardship Initiative Certifies Aluminij Plant Under Performance Standard V3
The Aluminium Stewardship Initiative (ASI) announced last week the certification of Aluminij Industries d.o.o.’s Bosnian operations under the third version...
ASI Certifies First Norsk Hydro Extrusion Plant In Mexico
The Aluminium Stewardship Initiative (ASI) announced last week the certification of Hydro Precision Tubing Reynosa under its Performance Standard. They...
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Nothing Joins Aluminium Stewardship Initiative As Downstream Supporter
The Aluminium Stewardship Initiative (ASI) announced last week the joining of Nothing to its association as a Downstream Supporter member. Based in London, England, Nothing is a tech company whose purpose is to remove barriers between technology and the people who use it. They are committed to ushering in the change needed in the industry […]
Hindalco’s Belagavi Works Certified Under Aluminium Stewardship Initiative’s Performance Standard
The Aluminium Stewardship Initiative (ASI) certified Hindalco’s Belagavi Works plant in India for Alumina Hydrate, Calcined Alumina, Special Alumina Hydrate, and special Calcined Alumina under the ASI Performance Standard V2 (2017) Certification last week. The plant, which is in Karnataka, produces about ten dozen different grades of alumina project. It produces special alumina and alumina […]
Australia’s Green Building Council Recognizes Aluminium Stewardship Initiative Performance Standard
The Aluminium Stewardship Initiative (ASI) said last week that its third version of its Performance Standard has been recognized by the Green Building Council of Australia’s Green Star under its Responsible Products Framework. The Green Star rating system was founded a decade ago and is recognized around the world as an important standard for grading […]
ASI Certifies Guangyuan Linfeng Aluminum Smelting Facilities In Sichuan, China
The Aluminium Stewardship Initiative (ASI) announced last week the certification of Guangyuan Linfeng Aluminum & Electricity Co., LTD, under the ASI Performance Standard V2 (2017) Certification for its aluminium facilities at the Yuanjiaba Industrial Park, Guangyuan Economic and Technological Development Zone, Sichuan, China. Guangyuan Linfeng’s operations at Yuanjiaba are powered primarily via hydropower. The aluminium […]
ASI Certifies Ardagh Metal Packaging’s Aluminium Plants In Germany And France
The Aluminium Stewardship Initiative (ASI) announced last week the certification of Ardagh Metal Packaging (AMP) under ASI’s Performance Standard (V2) 2017 at both its regional headquarters in Germany and its aluminium production plant in France. ASI certified AMP’s regional headquarters in Bonn’s centralized operational functions, global support functions, and quality assurance, while the certification at […]
Biden Infrastructure Bill A Big Boon To Aluminium Industry: Norsk Hydro VP Mike Stier
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 ...
The Net-Zero Shift Starts With Low Carbon Aluminium
2020 was supposed to be “year of climate action”, with the Glasgow COP26 acting as a major milestone for both ...
Aluminium at the LME Week – Key Takeaways
Between October 28 and November 1st, London hosted the traditional London Metals Exchange (LME) Week gathering of analysts, brokers, traders ...
Aluminium Market Oversupplied, Demand Growth Flat
Base metals prices reacted positively to the progress registered in the latest round of US – China trade talks in ...
