Michigan Honors IMCO Recycling

Recycling Inc. today announced that its Coldwater, Mich., aluminum recycling plant has become the first industrial facility in the state to receive the SHARP Award for an exemplary safety and health management system.

Acceptance into the Michigan Safety and Health Achievement Recognition Program (SHARP) demonstrates that a company has achieved safety and health excellence far beyond its peers.

The SHARP Award is presented by the Michigan Department of Consumer and Industry Services (CIS) Bureau of Safety and Regulation (BSR), which is responsible for the Michigan Occupational Safety and Health Administration (MIOSHA).

Doug Kalinowski, director of the state's Bureau of Safety and Regulation, will present the SHARP award at a ceremony to be held at the IMCO Recycling facility at 8:00 a.m. Monday, August 11. Claude Dube, general manager of the plant, and Brady Myers, division safety and health manager, will accept the award for IMCO.

The event will be attended by local and state elected officials, corporate leaders, representatives of MIOSHA and plant employees.

Mr. Dube said the employees and management of IMCO Recycling's Coldwater plant "are very proud of this recognition by the State of Michigan because we all committed to and executed an overall plan to make this a safe workplace. Employees from each shift and department of the plant are members of our safety committee which meets monthly to review and recommend procedures to keep safety our number one priority."

The IMCO facility recycles more than 180 million pounds of aluminum scrap annually. Each day its employees handle several hundred thousand pounds of molten aluminum with temperatures greater than 1,400 degrees.

IMCO Recycling Inc. bills itself as the world's largest recycler of aluminum and zinc. The company has 22 U.S. production plants and five international facilities located in Brazil, Germany, Mexico and Wales. IMCO Recycling's headquarters office is in Irving, Texas.