Hydro Aluminum Plans Second Aluminum Recycling Plant in U.S.

Hydro Aluminum announced plans to build its second aluminum recycling plant in the United States. The remelt plant will be built in Commerce, Tex. It will have an annual capacity of 90,000 metric tons.

The company is a division of Norsk Hydro, a Norway-based company. The parent company is the largest supplier of billet in the world.

The decision to build a remelt facility in Texas follows the company’s first remelt facility, opened in Henderson, Ky., this past May.

Hydro will invest $37 million in the new remelt plant. The company expects to begin construction this fall with completion by next November.

The company expects to use the remelt facility to serve aluminum markets in the Southwest. End markets will be from transportation, as well as the building and construction industries.

Norsk Hydro presently has four plants in Europe producing 250,000 metric tons of aluminum billets a year. The company also has a fifth aluminum remelt facility in Spain scheduled to open later this year. That facility will have an annual capacity of 60,000 metric tons.