Beck Aluminum makes good on expansion plans of its recycling facility

Less than a year after relocating to a 192,000-square-foot building at 7505 Durand Ave., Beck Aluminum has expanded its operations, making improvements in both capacity and efficiency. It has added 25 jobs, bringing their total number of employees in Mount Pleasant to 68, according to the Racine County Economic Development Corporation.

Part of Ohio-based Beck Aluminum Alloys, Beck Aluminum is one of the only suppliers of both primary and recycled aluminium ingot to the casting industry. Beck Aluminum has recycling plants in Racine WI, and Lebanon PA. The company moved from its original location at 1349 23rd St. last year and settled on the Durand Avenue location based after considering several strategic factors.

After relocation, the company made a number of improvements to the building, said Kurt Jensen, senior vice president of acquisitions and leasing for Phoenix Investors. In addition to adding an exterior, 40,000-square-foot, covered high-bay scrap receiving area, it installed new, state-of-the-art furnaces which will be used to melt and recycle aluminium alloys.

“It is a technologically advanced recycling plant,” Jensen said recently. “It’s an amazing operation.”

Bryan Beck, executive vice president of Beck Aluminum, stated that the expanded capabilities provided by new equipment would allow the company’s Racine location “to process lower-cost raw material more effectively and improve overall efficiencies.”