On the heels of a grand opening event for its 90,000-square-foot recycling facility, EGA Spectro Alloys today announced it’s not done growing. The company is embarking on phase two of its recycling expansion. The project will add about 100 million pounds of annual billet recycling capacity, nearly doubling Spectro’s billet capacity. The project is expected to be completed in 2027.
Billet – logs of aluminum up to 25 feet long – is used as raw material for extruders, which turn it into products like railings, window and door trim, and structural components for cars, boats, airplanes, trailers, docks and more.
At its grand opening event, the company officially opened phase one of the 90,000-square-foot recycling plant expansion, where it will produce up to 120 million pounds per year of recycled aluminum billets, a new product for Spectro. Phase two – located within the same plant – will grow Spectro’s total aluminum recycling capacity to 460 million pounds per year.
“This marks a momentous time in Spectro’s 52-year history,” said Luke Palen, president of EGA Spectro Alloys. “Adding billets to our product line means that aluminum recycled at Spectro will be found in even more everyday things that shape our world – and we’re doing it with industry-leading technology and environmental performance.”
Phase two includes an additional scrap melting furnace with automated charging, stirring and skimming, and a homogenizer.
Recycling aluminum requires 95 percent less electricity than producing new aluminum and generates a fraction of the greenhouse gas emissions. Metal from the expansion project will be sold under EGA’s recycled product brand RevivAL, a nod to the company’s 52-year legacy of giving used aluminum new life. The facility includes a new, world-class quality laboratory which will help ensure customers receive the highest quality recycled aluminum at customers’ precise specifications in diverse industries across the country.
EGA Spectro Alloys is currently seeking new team members to work in its new facility. No experience is necessary and on-the-job training is provided. Positions start at $20-$30 per hour.
EGA Spectro Alloys is 80 percent owned by Emirates Global Aluminium (EGA), the largest ‘premium aluminum’ producer in the world. EGA recently announced plans to build a $4 billion aluminum production plant in Oklahoma, which would nearly double the United States’ production of primary aluminum.