JW Aluminum Company will increase the annual intake of UBCs and other forms of recycled aluminium by at least 100 million pounds when it finishes an expansion project in the Southeast U.S. next year. JW Aluminum laid out details of the US$225 million expansion of an existing manufacturing site in Goose Creek, S.C. and the company said this will lead to increase in scrap consumption.
“Our new melting technology will allow us to input a broader range of chemistry for scrap, including UBC, extrusions, old sheet and 5xxx series alloy,” a JW Aluminum spokesperson said. “We expect overall scrap consumption to increase by 100 million pounds or more.”
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The company expects to be consuming about 300 million pounds of scrap material annually by the second half of 2020. JW Aluminum, which operates four aluminium rolling mills in the U.S. supplies aluminium products to a variety of industries, including the automotive and packaging sector.
According to a company spokesperson, the expansion project in South Carolina has involved construction of a new 220,000-square-foot facility. With more aluminium being used in more applications, greater volumes of the material are entering the recycling stream leading to a drop in the price of non-ferrous scrap.
The JW Aluminum project and other investments by end users of recycled aluminium could help lift scrap prices in the years to come by supplying more demand.
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