ALRO S.A., the first European aluminium facility to have received the new ASI Performance Standard V3 Certification

ALRO, one of the largest vertically integrated aluminium producers in Europe, has reportedly bagged the new updated ASI Performance Standard V3 (2022) Certification for its ALRO S.A. operations in Slatina, Romania. ASI has issued its new updated ASI Performance Standard certification for the first time to a European company.

Through the certification, ASI has acknowledged ALRO’s production and sale of aluminium alloy slabs, billets, wire rods, and plates and sheets with the use of the processes like castings, hot rolling, homogenization, heat treatment, mechanical processing, finishing and testing.

ALRO in Slatina has a production capacity of 265,000 TPA of electrolytic aluminium, 47,000 TPA of secondary aluminium, 332,000 TPA of primary aluminium cast products, and 90,000 TPA of flat rolled products, which is also under an expansion programme.

The brand new ASI Performance Standard V3 (2022) certification was launched in May 2022 after a multi-year revision to update and extend the Standard’s criteria for meeting the growing urgency of global environmental challenges and sustainability issues.

On receiving the certification, Marian NĂSTASE, Chairman of the Board of Directors of ALRO, said: “This prestigious certification from ASI confirms our sustainability progress over the past years. Our focus on sustainable business practices started more than 20 years ago when we invested massively in state-of-the-art equipment and energy efficiency to improve our operations. Starting in 2017, we have been reporting our sustainability performance voluntarily through a Consolidated Sustainability Report. Moreover, in 2021 we published a Sustainability Strategy for 2021-2025. Several awards recognized our progress as our Sustainability Report is considered one of the best on the Romanian Capital Market.”

Fiona Solomon, Chief Executive Officer at ASI, said: “We warmly congratulate ALRO on achieving ASI Performance Standard V3 (2022), the first against the updated Standard for a facility in Europe. Achieving ASI Certification is an important commitment for a vertically integrated operation, as additional Standard criteria are applicable to specific supply chain activities. This, coupled with the broader and more stringent criteria included in the updated Performance Standard V3, makes ALRO’s certification a milestone achievement.”

The independent, third-party audit of ALRO S.A. was carried out by DQS CFS.