Behind the ASI Standards Revision: A Closer Look at Constellium’s Contribution

A founding member of the Aluminium Stewardship Initiative (ASI), Constellium is fully committed to meeting the organization’s strict requirements while playing an active role in its governance. We contribute to ASI’s oversight at both the Standards Committee and Board levels, helping ensure the initiative continues to evolve in line with industry progress and regulatory developments.

As part of ASI’s mandatory five‑year standards review cycle, the latest Standards Revision Process began in March 2025. Constellium is actively participating through its involvement in multiple specialist working groups, including Climate Change, Circularity, Nature, Labor Rights and Health and Safety, and Chain of Custody and Claims.

To shed more light on this important process, we invite you to read ASI Standards Director Chelsea Reinhardt’s perspective below.

As ASI celebrates its tenth anniversary, we reflect on a decade of significant membership, certification growth, and increasing stakeholder engagement. As of today, we have issued more than 500 ASI certifications. This shows the incredible commitment of the aluminum sector to work together to tackle complex sustainability challenges, such as reducing emissions and embedding circularity principles into design and sourcing.

Critically, at a time of strengthening societal and regulatory expectations around responsible sourcing and supply chain transparency, the ASI Performance Standard aligns with the OECD Due Diligence Guidance, enabling ASI entities to meet wider industry expectations (such as London Metal Exchange responsible sourcing requirements) through certification.

Since the ASI standards apply across the whole value chain, they can help aluminum companies mitigate risks and improve transparency beyond their Tier 1 suppliers.

The global reach of the ASI standards creates a powerful platform for positive change, but it also brings evolving challenges. Looking ahead, ASI will need to find a balance — to stay relevant and credible for certified entities who are leading the way in sustainability, while remaining accessible to new companies with less mature processes or in less regulated regions, but which are nonetheless committed to ASI certification as a catalyst for improvement.

In March 2025, ASI launched a multi-year standards revision as part of our commitment to periodic review and good practice under the International Social and Environmental Accreditation and Labelling (ISEAL) Alliance code‑compliant membership. As part of this revision, for the first time, ASI is looking to build differentiation into the Performance Standard, with a new tier of optional leading practice expectations alongside minimum requirements. Entities will have the option to differentiate themselves in specific areas, based on performance and maturity.

The aim is to recognize leading practices and create clearer pathways for continuous improvement. The revision will also see a stronger focus on materiality and relevance, along with strengthened requirements in areas such as circularity strategy, mine closure, and upstream community impacts.

On the critical topic of climate action, ASI’s clear commitment to a 1.5 degree‑aligned aluminum sector will remain foundational.

With many certified entities facing structural challenges to reduce emissions in line with such a pathway, new requirements will consider differentiated reductions for different sections of the value chain, as well as opportunities to demonstrate 1.5 degree alignment beyond historic emissions‑reduction performance, including through Science‑Based Target Initiative‑verified targets and net‑zero alignment.

As part of the revision, ASI will also streamline and evolve the Chain of Custody Standard, with the aim to reduce audit burdens, improve transparency, and deliver more value for members across the value chain.

For companies transforming aluminum, such as Constellium, the standards revision brings opportunities for further recognition and differentiation - for example, around circularity principles, emissions reductions, and responsible sourcing. As a significant scrap remelter, Constellium plays a key connecting role between upstream scrap availability and downstream demand, enabling the full value chain to collaborate towards greater sustainability.

Input from all ASI members is essential to shape the content and ambition of the standards revision. As part of ASI’s multi‑stakeholder Standards Committee and as a provider of expertise to a number of ASI’s specialist working groups, Constellium plays another important role: overseeing the revision process to ensure it remains transparent and inclusive, and that the revised standards ultimately deliver on their ambitious objectives.