Aluminium Stewardship Initiative announced that StockachAlu has been successfully certified against the ASI Performance Standard for responsible production, sourcing and stewardship of aluminium. The facility’s main processes include remelting of scrap aluminium, including heavily contaminated scrap and dross and casting into rolling slabs. The facility has an annual capacity of 70000 tonnes.

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. The ASI Performance Standard defines environmental, social and governance principles and criteria, with the aim to address sustainability issues in the aluminium value chain. It sets out 59 criteria under the three sustainability pillars of Governance, Environment and Social, which address key issues such as biodiversity, Indigenous Peoples rights, and greenhouse gas emissions. The ASI CoC 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. The implementation of ASI’s CoC Standard links verified practices at successive steps of the supply chain, certified under the ASI Performance Standard, to the products produced by ASI Certified Entities.

The independent, third-party audits of the StockachAlu facility was carried out by GUTcert of AFNOR Group.