A report in South Carolina's Fort Mill Times states that American aluminium giant Alcoa expects to cut energy consumption will be cut by 50% following completion of its $21 million expansion project at its wheel and transportation products casthouse in Barberton, Ohio.
The plant, which makes forged wheels for the commercial vehicles, automotive and defence markets, is based in Cleveland, Ohio, and occupies 50,000 square feet. It recycles a staggering 100 million pounds of scrap aluminium annually and transforms the remelted metal into forged wheels.
Such a vast quantity of recycled metal can make 2 million forged aluminium wheels, claims Alcoa. According to the Fort Mill Times, "the casthouse takes chips and solids from an existing Alcoa wheel machining plant on the same campus in Barberton, as well as from Alcoa's Cleveland forging plant, and recycles them into aluminium billets. The billets are then shipped to other wheel-processing facilities to forge into aluminium wheels."
Process improvements and reduced transportation needs have led to a 90% reduction in transportation-related energy use, it is claimed.
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