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ASI News - July 2016

 

ASI Standards System - development update

ASI is targeting the launch of its certification program for the end of 2017. We are currently on track with the development of all the required normative documents, and are preparing a public consultation process on the draft Chain of Custody (CoC) Standard to start in October this year. 

There are a range of normative documents needed to design and run a standards system and certification program.  These documents set out the key elements for how ASI Certification will be designed, implemented, overseen and improved over time.  

ASI has developed an orientation document "ASI Standards Documents Overview", also available in French, Portuguese and Chinese, to introduce stakeholders to these various elements.  It describes each of the normative documents that are being developed for the ASI Certification program and their current status. 

An important point is that these elements need to be well integrated with each other, and consider the desired outcomes of the program and likely implementation challenges. ASI will be working with the ASI Standards Committee, ASI members, potential auditors and stakeholders to inform the finalisation of these critical documents.

Visit the ASI website to find out more about ASI's Activities and Plans for 2016-17, as we work to develop an independent third-party certification program for aluminium. Contact ASI if you'd like to learn more about how to get involved and support our work info@aluminium-stewardship.org 

Aluminium, the Magic Metal - in 1978
 

An ASI member recently shared with us an August 1978 issue of National Geographic that reviewed the past, present and future of aluminium for its readers. It's a fascinating article from almost 40 years ago, while still holding much in common with how aluminium is used and understood today.

"Just as earlier ages of human development have taken their names from the distinctive material that nurtured them - Stone, Bronze, Iron - there are those who believe our era may be called the Aluminium Age. ... No other metal so obligingly takes the myriad shapes that meet our everyday needs.  You can roll aluminium and forge it, saw, slit and shear it, and shape it by extruding ... much as you squeeze toothpaste through a tube.  By drawing aluminium, you can wind a wire so spiderweb thin that a strand weighing only a few hundred pounds could stretch around the world."
The article highlights early efforts towards creating incentives for recycling - such as cash for cans in the US - and federal legislation driving the shift to aluminium parts for lighter vehicles, foretelling the future growth in this sector that we see today.  

David Reynolds of Reynolds Aluminium (see their 1978 advertisement for aluminium can recycling at right) is quoted as saying:

"When we recycle aluminium, we save 95% of the energy needed to make new metal from bauxite.  Once you make aluminium it becomes, in effect, an energy bank that you can tap over and over again".

ASI MEMBERSHIP NEWS

ABAL joins ASI
 

ASI is delighted to announce that Associação Brasileira do Alumínio (ABAL), the Brazilian aluminium association, has joined as an Associations member.

ABAL works through Technical Committees and Market Committees to develop its activities and meet its major challenges, among which are: competitiveness, disseminating aluminum applications and incentives to its new applications, consolidating the industry's economic interests and representing them before government agencies, while watching over its institutional image and the product "aluminum". 

“By associating to ASI, we bring our support, which represents the entire aluminum chain in Brazil, to an initiative that strengthens responsible practices, from mining to the manufacture of end products, and that constantly seeks higher sustainability standards,” said Milton Rego, ABAL’s Deputy President.

NEW ON THE ASI WEBSITE

Standards Committee minutes

Minutes of ASI Standards Committee meetings are now being published on the ASI website, once they are approved at the following meeting.  The first set from the meeting held on 27-29 April 2016 in Ingolstadt are available at:
http://aluminium-stewardship.org/asi-standards-committee/


ASI Videos and Interviews
Thanks to a number of ASI members, we have some new videos and interviews available which give an overview of ASI and its current activities.  Check them out at:
http://aluminium-stewardship.org/videos/

ALUMINIUM 2016 CONFERENCE - NOVEMBER 2016

The ALUMINIUM 2016 World Trade Fair & Conference is being held from 29 November to 1 December in Düsseldorf, Germany. ASI plans to present several sessions at this conference on Wednesday November 30, including a workshop on the draft ASI Chain of Custody (CoC) Standard. 

ASI invites you to join us at ALUMINIUM 2016.  This is the way to your free ticket:
 
1. Please visit www.aluminium-messe.com/voucher and fill in the box with your voucher code: c67k-k95q-inaj-8hq4
2. If your voucher code is accepted and you already possess login data you are able to log in. Otherwise you can register at the button “registration”.
3. Please accept the General Terms and Conditions.
4. You will receive your ticket via email and you can download it directly. Print it and bring it with you to ALUMINIUM 2016.

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