Aluminium Stewardship Initiative (ASI) today announced that Hulamin Operations (Pty) Limited: Hulamin Rolled Products has been certified against the ASI Performance Standard V3 with Provisional status. The certified operations include a casthouse in Richards Bay and re-melting and recycling facilities, direct-chill ingot casting, hot rolling, cold rolling, foil rolling mills, and finishing processing lines in Pietermaritzburg. The facilities specialise in converting primary aluminium into semi-fabricated products, serving sectors such as packaging, engineering, automotive, and construction, with an annual production capacity of approximately 200,000 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 V3 and ASI CoC Standard V2 were launched in May 2022 following a multi-year revision process. The ASI Performance Standard V3 defines 11 principles and 62 criteria under three sustainability pillars – Environment, Social, and Governance – with the aim to address pressing sustainability issues in the aluminium value chain, such as biodiversity, Indigenous Peoples rights, circularity, and greenhouse gas emissions.
