Aluminium Stewardship Initiative (ASI) has announced on August 22 that Hydro Aluminium Primary Metal operations in Luxembourg and Norway have been certified against the ASI Chain of Custody Standard. Hydro’s aluminium smelting, re-melting/refining and casthouse activities are certified against the ASI Performance Standard.
Hydro has now has the longest chain of ASI certified entities covering its operations from bauxite to downstream products and secondary aluminium productions. The third-party audits of the Primary Metal operations were carried out by DNV GL.
ASI’s Standards apply across the supply chain, from mining to downstream sectors that use aluminium in their products. The ASI Standard sets out the benchmarks for the creation of a Chain of Custody across the complete value chain of aluminium.
Fiona Solomon, Chief Executive Officer at ASI said, “Hydro’s commitment to sustainability is clearly shown in the company’s expanding list of ASI certifications that collectively represent the head office and sixteen operations across six countries…With this latest Chain of Custody Certification, Hydro becomes the third ASI Member to offer ASI Aluminium with certified materials traced back to the bauxite mine. We warmly congratulate Hydro on their achievements.”
Eivind Kallevik, Executive Vice-President of Primary Metal in Hydro, says: “This ASI Chain of Custody certification for a number of Hydro Primary Metal operations marks a crucial milestone in Hydro’s commitment to certify Hydro aluminium throughout the entire value-chain according to the highest sustainability standards in our industry. Hydro takes pride in being able to going to market with aluminium products and solutions that are ASI certified from bauxite to end-product.”
He also says that their certification will ensure the fact that their customers are using material that is produced according to the leading industry standards for responsibility and sustainability.
ASI’s online assurance platform, elementAl underpins the entire certification workflow for both the ASI Performance Standard and Chain of Custody Standard. Full ASI certification is valid for three years, with a surveillance audit after 18 months.
The ASI Certification program was developed through an extensive multi-stakeholder consultation process and is the only comprehensive voluntary sustainability standard initiative for the aluminium value chain.
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