Alcoa has broken ground on a new $22 million project at its can reclamation facility at its Tennessee Operations. Improvements include a new crusher and delacquering furnace and supporting building enclosures, utilities and environmental systems.
The company expects the new project to be complete within the next 18 months.
"This is an investment in our recycling capability. Alcoa is a leader in aluminum scrap processing technology, and this upgrade will help increase capacity using state-of-the-art environmental and fuel efficiency technologies as well as support future flexibility to process other aluminum scrap types," said Greg Wittbecker, Alcoa’s director of for Corporate Metal Recycling Strategy.
Implementation of this project will increase UBC molten output capacity by nearly 50 percent.
Alcoa’s Tennessee Operations is the world's largest producer of rolled aluminum can sheet for beverage cans.
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