PARIS--(Marketwire - Mar 1, 2013) - As a founding partner of the Aluminium Stewardship
Initiative (ASI), Constellium
is delighted to welcome some of its key customers Audi, BMW Group and
Rexam as
new members.
Paris- 1 March 2013 - As a founding partner of the Aluminium
Stewardship
Initiative (ASI), Constellium is delighted to welcome some of its key
customers
AUDI, BMW Group and Rexam as new members.
As part of its active sustainable development strategy, Constellium has
engaged
into a holistic approach in this domain and has strongly contributed to
create
the Aluminium Stewardship Initiative that was launched in September 2012.
The Aluminium Stewardship Initiative is a unique aluminium value chain
program
that will define and deliver the first global standard for
aluminium
sustainability. Under the coordination of the IUCN (International
Union for
Conservation of Nature), it was initiated by leading players on their
respective
markets: AMAG/Constancia Flexibles, Amcor Flexibles, Constellium,
Nespresso, Rio
Tinto Alcan and Tetra Pak.
The ASI Standard will define environmental, social and governance criteria
that
can be applied to all stages of aluminium production and transformation. It
will
also consider how recycling and material recovery from products that
contain
aluminium can contribute to improving the metal's efficiency and
minimising its
environmental and social footprint. The ASI Standard will be supported
by a
Chain of Custody system, which will aim to assure the provenance of
aluminium.
"Sustainability is becoming more and more a driver of decisions in our
industry,
in particular in the fields of customer requests, economic balance,
public
affairs and internal and external communications. It is becoming a
"licence to
operate"", stated Laurent Musy, Chairman of the Constellium's
Sustainability
Council. "Our first priority was to expand the initial group of
founders and
invite new industry players. We are happy that new prominent companies
among
which some key customers of Constellium have responded and are now
joining and
we encourage more of our customers to join.
Constellium is already deeply committed to environmental protection and
resource
preservation. Thanks to unique advanced recycling capabilities, the
company is
acting through many initiatives with business partners in the
packaging,
automotive or aerospace markets.
About Constellium
Constellium, ex Alcan Engineered Products, est un leader mondial dans le
développement de solutions aluminium innovantes, performantes et
à forte valeur
ajoutée destinées à un large éventail de marchés
et applications, incluant
l'aéronautique, le transport, l'automobile, l'emballage et
l'énergie. Avec plus
de 9 000 employés, Constellium est structuré autour de 3
divisions : Global
Aerospace, Transportation & Industry (Global ATI) ; Specialty Sheet ;
Extrusions
& Automotive Structures. Constellium, dont le siège se trouve à
Paris, est
détenu par des sociétés affiliées à Apollo Global
Management (51%), Rio Tinto
(39%) et le Fonds Stratégique d'Investissement FSI (10%). Son chiffre
d'affaires
s'est établi à 3,6 milliards d'euros en 2012.
www.constellium.com
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