It is the only comprehensive voluntary sustainability standard initiative for the aluminium value chain, setting 59 criteria under the three pillars of sustainability: Environment, Social and Governance.

Iberfoil Aragon, the company belonging to the industrial and technological group Aliberico, has obtained the ASI Performance Standard certification for its aluminium coil rolling facilities in Sabiñánigo (Huesca). This is the only complete voluntary sustainability standard initiative for the aluminium value chain, which establishes 59 criteria under the three pillars of sustainability: Environment, Social and Governance.

Iberfoil ’s factory in Sabiñánigo has an annual production capacity of 20,000 tonnes of foil and 40,000 tonnes of coil, and its products are destined for use in diverse downstream sectors, including pharmaceutical, food and beverage packaging; signage; building and construction HVAC; and automotive.

The Aluminium Stewardship Initiative (ASI) V2 Performance Standard certification process has been carried out through an extensive multi-stakeholder consultation process. Among the 59 sustainability criteria covered by the Standard are key issues such as biodiversity, anti-corruption, indigenous peoples‘ rights, life cycle assessments and greenhouse gas emissions. All of these are related to the aluminium value chain.

The independent audit of the Iberfoil Aragon operation has been carried out by DNV Business Assurance Services UK Ltd.

„We are very proud to be part of ASI, a global reference for environmental, social and management certification. This certification confirms Iberfoil ’s high commitment to the environment, governance and people. The certification process has highlighted for us the efficiency of our internal material management and recycling processes, which motivates us to continue improving our management of aluminium along the value chain“, said Pedro M. Jiménez, Managing Director at Iberfoil .

Fiona Solomon, Chief Executive Officer at ASI said, “We warmly congratulate Iberfoil Aragon SLU on achieving ASI Performance Standard Certification. Aluminium foil stock and coil play a broad range of functional roles in many downstream sectors due to the metal’s multitude of critical properties, including high electrical conductivity, air and water impermeability, light and thermal resistance, lightweight strength and many others. This ASI Certification provides assurance of Iberfoil’s responsible production and stewardship practices at their Sabiñánigo, Spain facility.”

IBERFOIL, specialist in aluminium rolling, has a strict Quality, Safety, Environmental and Health Policy. This policy is one of the main reasons of the firm, essential for the success of the company and its customer’s satisfaction.

IBERFOIL regularly carries out internal audits that exhaustively analyse its Quality Control, Environmental Management and Health and Safety Management Systems. The result of these audits confirms that IBERFOIL complies with all the current regulations, obtaining the specific certifications in each area. Recently, it has renewed its certificates of:

ISO 9001:2015 – Relating to its Quality Management System, which demonstrates the company’s ability to provide products that meet customer requirements in terms of quality.

ISO 14001:2015 – Environmental Management System, which certifies that IBERFOIL controls all its activities, production processes, services and products that may have an impact on the environment. This certificate guarantees that the company makes every effort to reduce the environmental impacts generated in its daily activities.

ISO 45001:2018 – Certifies that IBERFOIL maintains an Occupational Health and Safety Management System allocated at protecting workers and visitors in the working environment.

In addition to the renewal of these certificates, IBERFOIL is a member of the Aluminium Stewardship Initiative (ASI), a certification and standard-setting organisation that recognises and promotes the responsible production, sourcing and management of aluminium. This global initiative, which aims to support members of responsible supply chains such as IBERFOIL, is the result of manufacturers, users and stakeholders coming together to create an agreement on „responsible aluminium“. The certification defines 59 principles, such as factory management, business integrity, transparency, material stewardship, environmental care, CO2 emissions or labour rights.

On the other hand, IBERFOIL’s aluminium is approved by the FDA (Food and Drug Administration of the United States), which means that the aluminium manufactured by IBERFOIL is suitable for use in the food and pharmaceutical sectors.

The fulfilment and obtaining of these certificates, show the continuous commitment of IBERFOIL with the safety and welfare of its workers, customers and environment.

IBERFOIL takes care of people and the environment with advanced aluminium solutions.

aluNID®, registered brand of aluminium honeycomb manufactured by ALUCOAT, continues to grow in its international sponsorships. This time it has been the Higher Technical Institute of the University of Lisbon who has joined the collaboration.

Formula Student Team Lisboa is made up of 71 students from various engineering fields: Aerospace, Mechanical, Electrical and Computer Science, as well as some students from Industrial Organization and Economics.

For a few months, it has been working on a prototype vehicle to be 100% electric and autonomous. Formula Student Team Lisboa has extensive experience in the design and execution of single-seaters, since they have been participating in the competition since 2001.

Through this collaboration agreement, aluNID® will supply its honeycomb core for the construction of the vehicle chassis, which will be competing in the next 2022-2023 season. Thanks to the hexagonal configuration of aluNID® and the light and resistant properties of aluminium, the car will pick up speed more easily, and in the event of a collision, the chassis will absorb the impact. On the other hand, aluNID® is made of 100% aluminium, which is anticorrosive and also has extraordinary fire behaviour. These features make aluNID® the perfect material for manufacturing vehicle chassis.

Formula Student Team Lisboa is a reference collaborator in Formula Student and is proud to foster the talent of people and to be able to help teams such as the Formula Student Team Lisboa continue to innovate and create quality solutions.

Summer camps are often the perfect way for children to keep learning and reinforce the knowledge acquired during the school year. Kids English Club, an urban camp 100% in English, is part of the activities of the English Academy IberEnglish.

At this camp, in addition to practising a foreign language, the children carry out science-related activities through experiments and projects. Among these projects are activities related to reverse engineering, that is, a learning process where children learn the technical aspects of a certain product, knowing how to detect which are the components that form it and what is the manufacturing process. This reverse engineering process is essential in the field of computing, more specifically, computers.

ALIBERICO FOOD PACKAGING, as part of its sustainability plan, has donated 20 computers to IberEnglish, so that the children at this camp can carry out experiments and tests, and thus develop their skills in the field of technology.

With this equipment, the children can see, learn and get to know what a computer looks like inside, how it works and how to make changes or adjustments while having fun and practising English.

ALIBERICO FOOD PACKAGING is highly committed to quality education (SDG 4) for children and provides tools for their development and in-depth knowledge, thus increasing their learning opportunities and future job opportunities.

This sponsorship reinforces ALIBERICO’s commitment to all those initiatives that aim to promote gender equality.

The CFF OLYMPIA Las Rozas project was born in 2015 with the only objective of promoting women’s sport, and particularly the football, in all its categories and ages.

Madrid, 12 July, 2022. – ALIBERICO, the leading Spanish and European private family-owned group and manufacturer of semi-finished aluminium products, maintains its support for women’s football and renews its sponsorship of the Olympia Las Rozas Women’s Football Club for another season, 2022-2023, with which it has had a collaboration agreement since 2020.

This sponsorship reinforces ALIBERICO’s commitment to all those initiatives that aim to promote gender equality and open paths in those social fields where there is a scarce female presence.

The action of supporting a sports entity such as the CFF OLYMPIA Las Rozas is aligned with the values promoted by ALIBERICO within its organisation, which include an internal promotion policy based on meritocracy, regardless of gender, ethnicity or age. Proof of this is that 52% of the Group’s management positions are held by women, including managers of the largest factories with the greatest international presence.

The CFF OLYMPIA Las Rozas project was born in 2015 with the only objective of promoting women’s sport, and in particular football, in all its categories and ages and, since then, it has not stopped growing and achieving success.

This past season, its Senior A team has been among the first places in the First National League; Senior B has been League champion and has moved up to La Liga Preferente, and the Juvenil A team has been among the first places in its group in the Liga de Fútbol Preferente Femenino Juvenil. Likewise, its Alevín B and Infantil B teams have been champions and runners-up, respectively, in the Community of Madrid League.

„We are present in completely different sectors, but in ALIBERICO we feel very identified with CFF OLYMPIA Las Rozas because it is a project that was born from a dream and is characterised by its large doses of passion, work and effort, values that are present in the day to day of all our factories. Growing and fighting in every match, working as a team, is the formula that inspires their project“, said María González Armero, from ALIBERICO.

„As María says, the CFF OLYMPIA Las Rozas was born from a dream in 2015 that today is materialised in a consolidated project with 260 players. It has been a year of great success for the Club and if there is something above them, it is to be able to share them with our sponsors, THANKS to ALIBERICO that accompanies us unconditionally to help all those players to grow personally and professionally within the field of sport and to continue opening the way and fulfilling dreams„, claims Vanesa Díaz Pérez, President of CFF OLYMPIA Las Rozas.