Vista Metals Georgia broke ground on a new $30 million casthouse expansion project at its Adairsville manufacturing facility in Georgia. The project will support the company in serving the aerospace extrusion, forging, and rolling markets. “Vista’s continued investments further demonstrate the commitment we have to our customers and the market space,” said Andrew Primack, president […]
Shape Corp. signed an agreement with Hydro Aluminium through which the companies will partner on bringing low-carbon Hydro CIRCAL® aluminum to the U.S. market. CIRCAL is a low-carbon aluminum product, which contains high amounts of post-consumer scrap. As a global Tier 1 supplier of multi-material impact energy management and lightweight body structures, Shape will explore […]
Novelis Inc. broke ground on a $365 million investment to build a highly advanced recycling center in Guthrie, Kentucky, which will support closed-loop recycling for the automotive market in North America. “This groundbreaking marks a major milestone in our ongoing commitment to sustainability and recycling, and also supports our automotive customers’ carbon reduction targets,” said […]
Altek Metal, headquartered in Esentepe, Istanbul, Turkey, received an 18 million euro joint investment from the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) and Garanti BBVA to build a new aluminum recycling casthouse with 50,000 ton per year capacity in Çerkezköy, Turkey. The main goal of this investment is to support business growth and improve […]
Novelis Inc. plans to invest approximately $50 million to build a recycling center at its Ulsan Aluminum joint venture in South Korea. The expansion project will increase capacity to produce rolling ingot, as well as reduce carbon emissions. “This latest capital investment in recycling is another example of our company purpose of ‘Shaping a Sustainable […]
Hammerer Aluminum Industries (HAI) completed the installation of a new €4.5 million melting furnace at its facility in Santana, Romania. The new furnace expands its recycling and remelting capacity to 250,000 tons per year. The investment in a new furnace is in reaction to the high demand for aluminum lightweight products made from recycled material. […]
Trimet Aluminium SE expanded its production capacity for aluminum sows with the installation of a new casting machine at its smelter in Hamburg, Germany. The facility can now cast around 45,000 tonnes of the aluminum sows — almost doubling capacity. “The new casting machine allows us to respond even more flexibly to our customers’ needs […]
Ellwood Aluminum ordered a new 200,000 lb batch homogenizing furnace for Phase 2 of their aluminum casthouse expansion in Hubbard, OH. When it started operation in early 2020, the new casthouse represented the company’s first entry into the aluminum melting and casting market. The facility is able to produce billet and slab, enabling the company […]
Century Aluminum Company started construction of a new low-carbon billet casthouse at its Norðurál Grundartangi smelter in Iceland. The new $120 million value-added casthouse will be able to produce low-carbon Natur-Al™ billet, as well as increase production of primary foundry alloys. “We are very excited to bring billet production to Grundartangi and, beginning in 2024, […]
