Matalco gets rail spur in Wisconsin

Canada-based Matalco, which operates several scrap-fed aluminum production facilities, now has freight rail service at its Wisconsin Rapids, Wisconsin, plant.

Matalco received a $400,000 grant from the Wisconsin Department of Transportation’s Transportation Economic Assistance program to help fund the Canadian National rail spur.

According to an online report from the Wisconsin Rapids Tribune, the total cost of the project as slightly more than $700,000. The company’s Wisconsin Rapids plant started up in late 2020 and has been designed to produce up to 120,000 tons of secondary aluminum billet annually.

The newspaper quotes Robert Roscetti of Matalco as saying, “Completion of this rail link will allow us to receive raw materials and ship completed product in a more cost-effective manner.”

The rail spur is described on the Wisconsin Department of Transportation website as an “extension of two existing industrial lead rail tracks by 2,000 feet to bring them to Matalco’s [facility].”