Hydro: ASI certification step

With the ambition to offer fully certified Hydro aluminium to the market in 2019, Hydro Hoogezand is now the world’s first extrusion plant to obtain the Performance Standard certification by the Aluminium Stewardship Initiative (ASI). ASI is the highest internationally recognized standard for robust environmental, social and governance practices across the aluminium lifecycle of production, use and recycling. Hydro is currently in the process of certifying in total 15 plants. As Hydro Hoogezand, the Netherlands, is the world’s first extrusion plant to obtain the certification, Hydro takes an important step towards becoming the first fully integrated aluminium company to offer…