Director of En+ Group’s Environmental and Climate Risk Management Department, Alexey Spirin, has joined the Board of the Aluminium Stewardship Initiative (ASI). According to the report, Mr Spirin has succeeded Tolga Egrilmeizer, Vice President of Sales & Marketing at Rio Tinto Aluminium, for two years term of office.
ASI’s Board consists of two Directors from each of Production and Transformation, Industrial Users and Civil Society membership classes, elected by all ASI members, and two Independent Directors, appointed by the elected Board.
Earlier during 2018-2020, Alexey represented Rusal as a standard committee member and a member of different ASI working groups.
Alexey Spirin said: “I would like to thank ASI members for their confidence in me, and I look forward to working with my fellow Board members to support the important work of ASI in raising standards for aluminium stewardship across the value chain.”
Rusal joined ASI in 2015; while in December 2020, En+ Group announced that five of its aluminium smelters received ASI certifications. In 2019-2020, En+ Group received ASI certification for RUSAL’s headquarters and for smelters, including Bratsk aluminum smelter (BrAZ), Boguchansky aluminium smelter (BoAZ), Boksit Timana, Irkutsk aluminium smelter (IrkAZ), Krasnoyarsk aluminium smelter (KrAZ), KUBAL (Kubikenborg aluminium AB), Ural aluminium smelter (UAZ), and Sayanogorsk aluminium smelter (SAZ).