Rendering courtesy of SMS Group
The Aluminum Dynamics LLC business unit of Indiana-based Steel Dynamics Inc. (SDI) reportedly has lined up several technology and engineering service suppliers to the flat-rolled aluminum mill it has under construction in Columbus, Mississippi.
A report by a metals production publication also names the locations of two aluminum slab production facilities SDI previously said it would build to help supply the Columbus mill: Gila Bend, Arizona, and San Luis Potosi, Mexico.
In March, Germany-based SMS Group announced it would be supply rolling mill technology at the site. SDI has only once used the Aluminum Dynamics brand in its news releases, and SMS Group referred to the Columbus complex by that name.
A mid-October report from Light Metal Age also uses the Aluminum Dynamics name and refers to several United States-based equipment and service suppliers that will be vendors to the business unit.
The report by the San Francisco-based publication says suppliers beyond SMS Group to the Aluminum Dynamics effort include St. Louis-based aluminum furnace producer and installer Gillespie & Powers Inc.; O’Fallon, Missouri-based Hustler Conveyor Co.; St. Louis-based shredder producer American Pulverizer Co.; and Indiana-based air pollution control equipment firm ETA Engineering.
The four United States-based firms will combine to supply furnace equipment, pretreatment equipment and air pollution control equipment not only in Columbus but also at the slab-making facilities in Arizona and Mexico, according to Light Metal Age.
“This scope of supply includes shredders, conveyors, hot and cold air pollution control equipment, melting furnaces, holding furnaces and metal treatment equipment up to the casting table of various sizes and configurations,” according to the publication.
SDI has indicated it intends to follow its recycled-content steel heritage when it enters the aluminum sector, and the online report indicates the Hustler Conveyor and American Pulverizer equipment in particular will help prepare aluminum scrap as feedstock.
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