Aluminium Stewardship Initiative has reportedly certified Ma’aden Aluminium against the Performance and Chain of Custody Standard Certification for its vertically integrated aluminium facilities. The news came after ASI announced that it successfully certified the Middle East-based company for its bauxite mining at the Al Ba’itha mine in Qassim Province, alumina refining and smelting, aluminium remelting, and casting and rolling operations at Ras Al Khair Industrial City. The industrial facility also includes recycling operations for used beverage cans.
Ma’aden’s smelter has an annual production capacity of 780,000 tonnes of aluminium, its rolling facility can produce 460,000 tonnes of can sheet, and end and tab stock for beverage cans and auto body sheet, and its remelting operations are able to recycle around 120,000 tonnes of used beverage cans annually.
The ASI Performance Standard defines environmental, social and governance principles and criteria, with the aim to address sustainability issues in the aluminium value chain, while the Chain of Custody Standard sets out requirements for the creation of a Chain of Custody for material that is produced and processed through the value chain into diverse downstream sectors.
Fiona Solomon, Chief Executive Officer at ASI, said: “ASI warmly congratulates Ma’aden Aluminium on this dual ASI Certification of its integrated operations in Saudi Arabia. The vertical integration of these operations from bauxite mining to UBC recycling, as well as casting and rolling makes it an important aluminium node in the Middle East. The company’s ASI Certifications are a significant boost for the responsible production and sourcing of ASI Certified materials for the global aluminium value chain and downstream aluminium-using sectors.”
The independent third-party audit of the Ma’aden facilities was carried out by DNV Business Assurance Services UK Ltd.
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