Cumberland Scrap, a scrap metal recycling facility jointly owned by OmniSource Corp., Fort Wayne, Ind., and Cohen Brothers, Middletown, Ohio, recently announced plans to open a new facility in Logan County, Ky., which is found in the southwestern part of the state.
Jody Lassiter, director of the Logan Economic Alliance for Development, notes that the county is centrally located among a significant number of metal-based operations in the area. Additionally, the Logan County area is close to two of the busiest interstates in the county. The 20-acre site also has a rail spur for a short line railroad. The scrap facility will be performing general processing of various types of metal.
The Cumberland project was initially announced last March. According to Lassiter the company should have some rudimentary processing capabilities within the next two months, with most of the operations completed by the middle of this year.
According to local reports Cumberland Scrap has been approved for $500,000 in state tax incentives for the project, which is expected to cost around $4 million, and could ultimately have 30 employees.
In an unrelated announcement, the Logan Economic Alliance says that Logan Aluminum has announced plans to expand its recycling center facility at its aluminum smelting operation. Logan Aluminum is jointly owned by ARCO Aluminum and Novelis.
The expansion is expected to cost around $25 million, and would result in a 70,000-square-foot expansion of its existing facility. It is scheduled to be complete by early next year.
According to local press reports, once completed, the facility will be capable of receiving and melting scrap aluminum such as UBCs, scrap aluminum siding, and scrap from can manufacturing plants for use in the existing operations.
Lassiter says that the expansion will include technology that is brand new in the United States, having only been used in Europe so far. "It will be the only aluminum smelter of its kind in the United States with this technology."