ASI certifies OETINGER Aluminium against Performance Standard Certification with Provisional status

The Aluminium Stewardship Initiative has certified OETINGER Aluminium against the Performance Standard Certification with Provisional status for the production of aluminium alloys from scrap and recycled materials at Weißenhorn and Neu-Ulm plants in Germany. The two plants together produce nearly 180,000 tonnes per year of aluminium. 

OETINGER Aluminium recycles scrap and refines it into aluminium alloys, in the form of liquid and solid. The alloys produced at the plants are destined for the automotive engineering, mechanical engineering, and electrical industries. 

Fiona Solomon, Chief Executive Officer at ASI, said: “We warmly congratulate OETINGER Aluminium on achieving ASI Performance Standard Certification with Provisional status. The company is an essential link in the value chain, providing recycling concept, logistics, the processing of waste metal, chips, and other scrap back into high quality alloys through smelting and refining and finally, delivery of materials needed to make new products. Further, its focus on delivery of liquid metal means additional energy savings by avoiding their customers’ need for remelting. The company’s ASI Certification now also shows its commitment to operating in a responsible manner and continual improvement.”

Lubomir Pajonk, Managing Director of OETINGER Aluminium, said: “We are proud of our team, our colleagues, who made a successful certification of the ASI Performance Standard possible. This commits us not only as a member of the family of companies with this standard but also for the future steps we are preparing. Sustainability, renewability and circular economy should be our goal and direction. OETINGER Aluminium is now 75 years old and that is a lot of experience, but the road ahead is full of challenges, commitments and a responsible approach to a future we look forward to and want to support in savings not only in CO2 but in carbon footprint reduction as well.”

The independent, third-party audit of the OETINGER plants was carried out by GUTcert (AFNOR Group).