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Chicago Tribune
5 days ago
- Business
- Chicago Tribune
This Minnesota recycled aluminum plant will help stem tariff costs
ROSEMOUNT, Minnesota — With its new $71 million expansion, EGA Spectro Alloys in this southern suburb of the Twin Cities becomes one of only about 40 plants in the U.S. that can make recycled aluminum billets. Think 25-foot-long poles of solid aluminum. The 90,000-square-foot plant gives companies a needed domestic source for the much-in-demand billets at a time when most aluminum in the U.S. is imported and faces a 50% tariff set in June by President Donald Trump. At the same time, it becomes a much bigger buyer of industrial metal scrap, a new buyer in Minnesota for recycled beer and pop cans and gives Spectro Alloys its first new product line in 53 years. 'So there's a lot of demand. We are in a really good position,' said EGA Spectro Alloys President Luke Palen. Because aluminum is used in everything from cars and fighter jets to food containers and America's ever-expanding energy grid, U.S. demand 'approached near record levels in 2024,' said Aluminum Association spokesperson Katie Rosebrook. Spectro Alloy employs about 150 workers in its original aluminum recycling plant, which makes 28-pound bricks, called ingots, that eventually become parts for Harley-Davidson motorcycles, Polaris ATVs and products made by companies like General Motors, Tesla, Black & Decker and Caterpillar. The company, which is majority owned by Emirates Global Aluminum in the United Arab Emirates, now is scrambling to add 50 new workers and expects the new billet operation to boost business by 50%, Palen said. 'Their investment (of) $71 million and creating 50 new jobs for the area is a huge impact for us,' said Adam Kienberger, community development director for Rosemount. The first molten metal recently glided from one new three-story furnace, oozed down chutes and spilled into 26-foot casting cylinders, deep in the floor of the expansion. Three new rumbling furnaces came from Austria. Once they had cooled, crane operator Lorenzo Martinez gingerly hoisted 10 billets from the 'vertical casting pit' and onto a giant conveyor belt. The load weighed nearly 18,000 pounds. The billets will be marketed under the RevivAL brand name, a nod to the fact the aluminum came from 250 recyclers. 'With this expansion, we will make 120 million pounds a year of high-quality, recycled billet,' said Palen, who said it also helps companies meet environmental goals. 'It will … contribute to a circular economy in our region and throughout the U.S.' Customers are already lined up for the billets, which will be used to build door frames, stair railings and boat docks besides auto parts and more. Last week, the first truck load shipped to Crown Extrusions in Chaska, which is working with a dock maker. The company plans to add more equipment so it can produce other products such as sheet metal alloys. Since selling 80% of the company to EGA last year, the Palens have sent engineers, technicians, chemists and metallurgists to Abu Dhabi for billet training. With the new billet plant, Minnesota will no longer have to send all of its curbside-collected aluminum-can scrap to other states for processing. Some of Spectro's billet alloy recipes will allow for some old cans, in addition to the usual industrial aluminum scrap. 'This is exciting, because it's not only going to increase the aluminum that's recycled overall, but it's the first local outlet for aluminum cans in Minnesota, at least that I'm aware of,' said Minnesota Pollution Control Agency (MPCA) spokesman Mark Rust. 'It is critically important that people understand there's a reason to recycle. These products really do have value. The more material that enters the market, that adds value to Minnesota's economy.' Gwen Jenkins, MPCA's recycling and organics specialist, said she hopes Spectro's ability to use additional types of aluminum scrap will remind and encourage Minnesotans to recycle more. Right now, Minnesotans recycle just 51% of aluminum beverage cans or about 14,000 tons a year, she said.
Mid East Info
09-07-2025
- Business
- Mid East Info
Production begins at expansion of EGA Spectro Alloys recycling plant in US - Middle East Business News and Information
Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, July 2025: Emirates Global Aluminium, the largest 'premium aluminium' producer in the world, today announced the start of production at the expansion of the EGA Spectro Alloys aluminium recycling plant in Minnesota in the United States. The expansion adds 55 thousand tonnes of secondary billet production capacity in the first phase. The ramp-up to full production is expected to be complete in the first quarter of 2026. The expansion takes EGA Spectro Alloys' total production capacity to 165 thousand tonnes per year of recycled aluminium ingots and billets. Metal from the expansion project will be sold under EGA's recycled aluminium product brand RevivAL. The completion of the expansion project at EGA Spectro Alloys brings EGA's global aluminium recycling capacity to 195 thousand tonnes per year, with plants in the United States and Germany. EGA is currently building the UAE's largest aluminium recycling plant in Al Taweelah, which will have a capacity of 170 thousand tonnes per year of aluminium billets. The UAE recycling plant is expected to begin production in the first half of 2026. Abdulnasser Bin Kalban, Chief Executive Officer of Emirates Global Aluminium , said today: 'Reaching first hot metal at the expansion of EGA Spectro Alloys is another milestone in our drive to build a global aluminium recycling business to meet growing demand for this low carbon metal. It is also a milestone in EGA's growth in the United States, already one of our most important markets and where we are progressing our plans to build a primary aluminium production plant in Oklahoma.' Demand for recycled aluminium in the United States is expected to reach some 7.6 million tonnes per year by 2033, according to CRU, an independent business intelligence organisation. The United States is currently the world's second biggest recycled aluminium market. Recycling aluminium requires 95 per cent less electricity than making new metal, and generates a fraction of the greenhouse gas emissions. In Oklahoma, EGA plans to develop the first new primary aluminium production plant in the United States of America since 1980. The plant is expected to have a production capacity of 600 thousand tonnes of primary aluminium per year, nearly doubling the United States' current production. Some 85 per cent of the aluminium needs of American industries, from automotive to aviation and construction, are currently met by imports.
Al Etihad
09-07-2025
- Business
- Al Etihad
Emirates Global Aluminium begins production at EGA Spectro Alloys recycling plant in US
9 July 2025 17:22 ABU DHABI (WAM)Emirates Global Aluminium Wednesday announced the start of production at the expansion of the EGA Spectro Alloys aluminium recycling plant in Minnesota in the United expansion adds 55 thousand tonnes of secondary billet production capacity in the first phase. The ramp-up to full production is expected to be complete in the first quarter of expansion takes EGA Spectro Alloys' total production capacity to 165 thousand tonnes per year of recycled aluminium ingots and from the expansion project will be sold under EGA's recycled aluminium product brand completion of the expansion project at EGA Spectro Alloys brings EGA's global aluminium recycling capacity to 195 thousand tonnes per year, with plants in the US and is currently building the UAE's largest aluminium recycling plant in Al Taweelah, which will have a capacity of 170 thousand tonnes per year of aluminium billets. The UAE recycling plant is expected to begin production in the first half of bin Kalban, Chief Executive Officer of Emirates Global Aluminium, said today, 'Reaching first hot metal at the expansion of EGA Spectro Alloys is another milestone in our drive to build a global aluminium recycling business to meet growing demand for this low carbon metal. It is also a milestone in EGA's growth in the United States, already one of our most important markets and where we are progressing our plans to build a primary aluminium production plant in Oklahoma.'Demand for recycled aluminium in the United States is expected to reach some 7.6 million tonnes per year by 2033, according to CRU, an independent business intelligence organisation. The US is currently the world's second biggest recycled aluminium aluminium requires 95 per cent less electricity than making new metal, and generates a fraction of the greenhouse gas Oklahoma, EGA plans to develop the first new primary aluminium production plant in the US since plant is expected to have a production capacity of 600 thousand tonnes of primary aluminium per year, nearly doubling the US' current production. Some 85 per cent of the aluminium needs of American industries, from automotive to aviation and construction, are currently met by imports. EGA acquired 80 per cent of EGA Spectro Alloys in 2024.
Miami Herald
09-07-2025
- Business
- Miami Herald
This Minnesota recycled aluminum plant will help stem tariff costs
ROSEMOUNT, Minnesota - With its new $71 million expansion, EGA Spectro Alloys in this southern suburb of the Twin Cities becomes one of only about 40 plants in the U.S. that can make recycled aluminum billets. Think 25-foot-long poles of solid aluminum. The 90,000-square-foot plant gives companies a needed domestic source for the much-in-demand billets at a time when most aluminum in the U.S. is imported and faces a 50% tariff set in June by President Donald Trump. At the same time, it becomes a much bigger buyer of industrial metal scrap, a new buyer in Minnesota for recycled beer and pop cans and gives Spectro Alloys its first new product line in 53 years. "So there's a lot of demand. We are in a really good position," said EGA Spectro Alloys President Luke Palen. Because aluminum is used in everything from cars and fighter jets to food containers and America's ever-expanding energy grid, U.S. demand "approached near record levels in 2024," said Aluminum Association spokesperson Katie Rosebrook. Spectro Alloy employs about 150 workers in its original aluminum recycling plant, which makes 28-pound bricks, called ingots, that eventually become parts for Harley-Davidson motorcycles, Polaris ATVs and products made by companies like General Motors, Tesla, Black & Decker and Caterpillar. The company, which is majority owned by Emirates Global Aluminum in the United Arab Emirates, now is scrambling to add 50 new workers and expects the new billet operation to boost business by 50%, Palen said. "Their investment (of) $71 million and creating 50 new jobs for the area is a huge impact for us," said Adam Kienberger, community development director for Rosemount. Last week, the first molten metal glided from one new three-story furnace, oozed down chutes and spilled into 26-foot casting cylinders, deep in the floor of the expansion. Three new rumbling furnaces came from Austria. Once they had cooled, crane operator Lorenzo Martinez gingerly hoisted 10 billets from the "vertical casting pit" and onto a giant conveyor belt. The load weighed nearly 18,000 pounds. The billets will be marketed under the RevivAL brand name, a nod to the fact the aluminum came from 250 recyclers. "With this expansion, we will make 120 million pounds a year of high-quality, recycled billet," said Palen, who said it also helps companies meet environmental goals. "It will ... contribute to a circular economy in our region and throughout the U.S." Customers are already lined up for the billets, which will be used to build door frames, stair railings and boat docks besides auto parts and more. Last week, the first truck load shipped to Crown Extrusions in Chaska, which is working with a dock maker. The company plans to add more equipment so it can produce other products such as sheet metal alloys. Since selling 80% of the company to EGA last year, the Palens have sent engineers, technicians, chemists and metallurgists to Abu Dhabi for billet training. With the new billet plant, Minnesota will no longer have to send all of its curbside-collected aluminum-can scrap to other states for processing. Some of Spectro's billet alloy recipes will allow for some old cans, in addition to the usual industrial aluminum scrap. "This is exciting, because it's not only going to increase the aluminum that's recycled overall, but it's the first local outlet for aluminum cans in Minnesota, at least that I'm aware of," said Minnesota Pollution Control Agency (MPCA) spokesman Mark Rust. "It is critically important that people understand there's a reason to recycle. These products really do have value. The more material that enters the market, that adds value to Minnesota's economy." Gwen Jenkins, MPCA's recycling and organics specialist, said she hopes Spectro's ability to use additional types of aluminum scrap will remind and encourage Minnesotans to recycle more. Right now, Minnesotans recycle just 51% of aluminum beverage cans or about 14,000 tons a year, she said. Copyright (C) 2025, Tribune Content Agency, LLC. Portions copyrighted by the respective providers.
