Ecovery adds secondary aluminum capacity

Metal recycling firm Ecovery LLC will be commissioning a 60,000-pound-capacity secondary aluminum furnace this September at its processing facility in Loxley, Alabama.

The unit is its second on-site rotary furnace and represents Ecovery’s second major capital expenditure project in 2024. Earlier this year, Ecovery installed an X-ray sorting line designed to supply furnace-ready aluminum shred to aluminum rolling mills in the Southeast and Midwest.

Ecovery says its new furnace will allow it to increase its melting capacity while also expanding the dross processing and toll conversion services it can offer its customers.

Ecovery CEO Brock Norris says the family-owned and operated business located near Mobile, Alabama, has diversified and expanded several times in its 16-year history.

Originally incorporated to process electronic scrap, Ecovery pivoted to nonferrous scrap and now specializes in the shredding, granulation, separation, X-ray sorting and melting of aluminum and copper-bearing scrap, providing products to mills throughout the U.S., Europe and Asia.

On its website, Ecovery describes itself as one of the largest consumers and processors of copper-aluminum radiators in the country and indicates it operates other processing equipment.