IMCO Facility Receives QS-9000 Certification

IMCO Recycling Inc., headquartered in Irving, Texas, today announced that the Steel Related Industries (SRI) Quality System Registrar awarded its Coldwater, Mich., aluminum recycling and alloying facility a QS-9000 Certificate of Registration.

The Coldwater plant is operated by IMCO's specialty alloys division, which has five U.S. production facilities and provides specification aluminum alloys to auto and light truck manufacturers and their suppliers, and also serves other customers.

The Coldwater plant received the certificate after SRI conducted audits of its total quality system policies and procedures.

Claude Dube, manager of the two IMCO plants located in Coldwater, said: "Our employees can take pride in the awarding of this certificate because it provides assurance that both automotive customers and toll customers who serve other markets will consistently receive the highest quality products. It complements the QS-9000 and ISO-9002 certifications held since 1998 by our specialty alloys facility that is located near the aluminum recycling and alloying plant."

Bruce Bergeson, division quality and process manager, said: "Four of the specialty alloys division's plants now hold QS-9000 certificates, and the Coldwater aluminum recycling plant and the Shelbyville, Tennessee, facility are working toward completing ISO-14000 certifications by the end of the year."

All of the production from the aluminum recycling and alloying facility, which began operations in 1997, is used to meet the specification alloys plant's automotive industry supply contracts and toll customer contracts. The two facilities operate together to act as a full-service, fully integrated plant ready to meet the growing needs of the automotive industry and other customers.

IMCO Recycling Inc. is the world's largest recycler of aluminum and zinc. The company has 21 U.S. production facilities and owns an aluminum recycling plant in Swansea, Wales. It also holds a 50 percent interest in a joint venture in Germany that operates two recycling and foundry alloy plants and owns a majority interest in a joint venture that operates an aluminum recycling plant in Monterrey, Mexico.