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Aleris International is a producer of aluminum rolled and extruded products, recycled aluminum, and specification aluminum alloy manufacturing. It headquarters are in Beachwood, Ohio, a suburb of Cleveland, and it has access to 40 production facilities across the world.[1]
Aleris was formed in 2004 through the merger of Commonwealth Industries, Inc. and IMCO Recycling Inc.[1]
In February 2009, the US Justice Department filed suit against Aleris alleging that 15 of its plants had violated the Clean Air Act by emission of pollutants. In August 2009, Aleris settled the suit with the government, and agreed to pay a $4.6 million fine and spend an additional $4.2 million on new pollution controls at its plants.[2][3]
Aleris filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy on 12 February 2009.[4] It announced plans in May 2010 to exit bankruptcy as a privately-held company owned by investment funds of Apollo Management, Oaktree Capital Management, and Sankaty Advisors.[5][dated info]
Aleris filed with the SEC to raise up to $100 million in an IPO in April 2011.[6]
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Leading North American manufacturer of Rolled Aluminum Products, many for technically sophisticated applications
Global leader in Aluminum Recycling and in the production of specification alloy
One of the industry’s lowest-cost manufacturers of continuous-cast sheet and direct-chill products, as well as a leader in quality and services
An innovator in coating solutions
Facilities that are able to process both primary and recycled scrap aluminum, providing the flexibility to respond to customer needs and industry trends
Experienced team of metal buyers throughout the U.S., Canada and Mexico
Our Businesses
Rolled Products North America
Aleris’s Rolled Products North America (RPNA) segment produces rolled products for a wide variety of applications, including building and construction, distribution, transportation and other uses in consumer durables general industrial segments.
Recycling and Specification Alloys Americas
Aleris’s Recycling and Specification Alloy Americas (RSAA) segment includes aluminum melting, processing and recycling activities, as well as its specification alloys manufacturing business. The segment’s specification alloy operations combine various aluminum scrap types with hardeners and other additives to produce alloys and chemical compositions with specific properties (including increased strength, formability and wear resistance) as specified by customers for their particular applications.
Aleris Rolled Products North America
Aleris Rolled Products is proud to provide quality products and services to customers throughout North America. As part of its complete portfolio of offerings for a diverse range of customers, the Company manufactures rolled products both through the continuous-casting process as well as via the direct-chill rolling ingot casting process for more precisely engineered higher-end applications. Our large rolling mills in Lewisport, Kentucky, and Newport, Ohio, begin the process by turning both prime and recycled aluminum into some of the highest-quality aluminum coil and reroll in our industry. This coil can be rolled to gauge and sent directly to our customers in a mill finish, or further processed by slitting, embossing, or coating within our mill.
Our mills can also provide reroll to our downstream operations in Clayton, New Jersey, and Buckhannon, West Virginia. There, the metal is further processed by rolling to gauge, slitting, and applying a specialty coating for some customers. Other key Aleris plants include our Ashville, Ohio, plant that paints and fabricates products sold under the ALSCO brand name, and our Roxboro, North Carolina, paint facility.
Aleris Rolled Products Highlights
Direct-chill coil and continuous-cast coil
Numerous alloys, tempers, widths, and gauges
Industry-leading coated products, including acrylics and polyesters in a variety of colors and gloss, as well as many specialty coatings
Used in everything from gutter and downspouts to massive trailers
Key industries we serve in North America: Building and Construction, Transportation, Packaging, Electrical, and Consumer Durable
A large portion of our business reaches customers through our valued distributor partners
Quality and Service from Coast to Coast
We strive to provide the most-consistent and highest-quality products in the industry. Our product engineering group works with customers to resolve problems and develop new opportunities whenever, and wherever, they may arise. And our sales and customer service groups are highly trained and technically equipped to provide fast, accurate, and friendly service.
Aluminum Recycling
Aleris’ aluminum recycling operations have become a recycling leader in the Americas through its emphasis on superior technology, product quality, customer service, and through the expansion of existing plants and the acquisition of others. This business currently operates 19 US-based facilities in eight states. (Click here to view plant locations and capabilities)
We offer a wide range of metal recycling services and specification-alloy products made to order. The recycling facilities are able to process both primary and secondary scrap aluminum, giving us a great degree of flexibility to respond to your needs and industry trends.
Industries served:
Extrusion
Can sheet
Transportation
Construction
Steel
Scrap Processing
Aluminum that is recycled by Aleris includes many types of post-consumer and industrial scrap, new scrap from the manufacturing of cans and other products, and dross which is skim from the aluminum melting process. Aleris is able to sort, crush, shred, clean, and melt the scrap, then deliver it to metal customers in ingot, sow, or molten form.
Materials being processed:
Dross. Aluminum dross, one of the principal materials recycled by Aleris, forms on the top of material in reverberatory furnaces during the melting process.
New Scrap. This new scrap is generated from the manufacture of auto wheels, engine blocks and heads, can stock, extrusions, building materials, and other types of aluminum scrap.
Old Scrap. Old scrap such as used beverage cans (UBCs), vehicles, building components, other types of industrial and consumer scrap.
Milling
The Aleris milling operations recycle black dross and saltcake through proprietary dry and wet milling processes to separate the components of the materials, thereby reducing the overall volume of waste material produced and returning a portion of them to re-usable products, including aluminum and various mineral oxides.
Melting
Aleris operates both reverberatory and rotary furnaces. Solid scrap aluminum is converted into a liquid form during the melting process. Throughout the melting process, additional alloying elements can be added to achieve a specified chemistry required for various end use needs. The molten metal can be cast into various shapes such as ingot, RSI, or Deox. It can even be transported to customers in a molten state for direct charge to their casting equipment.
Manufacturers needing consistently processed recycled aluminum material rely on Aleris to supply them with the needed material. Aleris offers a tolling fee to accept, inspect, shred, separate, de-lacquer, and melt aluminum owned by its customers. After the melting process is completed, the aluminum is cast and delivered to the customer. Products can be delivered to customers in the following forms:
Molten
Ingot form
Sow form
Deox cone
Casting Process
The molten aluminum from the melting process is poured into a mold allowing it to solidify into particular shapes:
Low-profile sow
Several sizes of ingot
2-way sows
4-way sows
Deox cones
Aluminum Deoxidizers
Aleris produces a full range of aluminum deoxidizers for use in iron and steel production. All grades are produced to conform to ASTM Specification B-37-96 and meet the steel industry standards. Aluminum deoxidizers are available in a wide variety of shapes including:
Briquettes
Cones
Pyramids
Shot
Shreds
All products are provided in a variety of packaging styles to meet your unique requirements:
Boxes
Bundles
Bags
Super sacks
Truckloads
Specification Alloys
Do you have specific alloy needs? Our specification alloy operations can combine various aluminum scrap types with hardeners and other additives to produce alloys and chemical compositions as specified by you for your particular applications.
Specification alloy customers generate scrap or purchase scrap, then have it delivered directly to one of the six Aleris specification alloy plants located in the US, Canada, or Mexico. After being inspected for quality and degree of compliance within receiving specifications, the material is processed, melted, and returned to the customer. Aleris also acquires materials from the open market to produce specification alloy products that we then sell back to the open market.
Melting
Aleris operates both reverberatory and rotary furnaces. Various alloys and grades of scrap are melted into a furnace in an attempt to meet certain chemistry requirements to adhere to the alloy specification needed for casting.
Casting
Aleris has highly qualified, knowledgeable employees who are experienced with the entire casting operation. Once the specifications are received by the customer and integrated into our casting operations, the scrap is melted and the molten aluminum alloy is poured into a mold allowing it to solidify into special shapes:
Low-profile sow
Several sizes of ingot
2-way sows
4-way sows
Specification alloy industries served:
Automotive
Small engine
Appliances
Electrical and consumer products
ALSCO®
ALSCO® offers a broad range of residential and light commercial aluminum building products. The company was founded in 1947, and is well known for its complete line of trim products in a host of popular designer colors. With the industry’s broadest offering, ALSCO is a single source for all your aluminum trim product needs:
Soffit
Fascia
Trim
Trim coil
Siding
Gutter systems
Gutter protection
As the only vertically integrated manufacturer of aluminum products for the building industry, ALSCO is able to optimize every step in this manufacturing process, resulting in superior recycled aluminum products that are made in the USA.
For more information on the ALSCO product line, please visit our site at http://www.alscometals.com.
ALSCO® is a registered trademark of Aleris Rolled Products, Inc.
ETS Schaefer, LLC.
A subsidiary of Aleris International Inc.
ETS Schaefer has been a true pioneer, developing the most cutting-edge technologies for the refractory industry. Located in Macedonia, Ohio, the company offers a wide variety of fabricated and commodity products, and is respected as a global leader in the application and installation of ceramic fiber insulation products. Because of its innovative heritage and problem-solving expertise, ETS Schaefer gets the call when a customer needs to increase operating efficiency, improve production capacity, and trim operating costs by reducing both fuel consumption and costly downtime. You’ll find our products hard at work in a variety of industries, including:
Aluminum
Carbon
Ceramics
Forging
Foundry
Glass
Heat treating
Nickel
Specialty alloy
Steel
Metals Purchasing Americas
Aleris International, Inc. is one of the largest consumers of aluminum scrap and by-products in North America. Our experienced team of buyers purchase essentially all grades of aluminum for our network of recycling and manufacturing facilities spread throughout the US, Canada and Mexico. We employ a wide range of furnaces and processing equipment across these sites, allowing us to safely clean and refine recycled scrap, whether it’s from the lowest recovery drosses and impure post consumer scrap to clean industrial scrap.
Here are some main types of scrap that Aleris regularly purchases:
Painted siding
Mixed clips and solids (all alloys)
Turnings/borings/grindings (all alloys)
Lithographic sheet
Old cast/sheet (tense/taint tabor)
Auto/truck wheels
New/old extrusions
Shredded aluminum
Various grades of auto cast (twitch)
Aluminum/copper radiators
Dross/slag
RSI (per analysis)
Aleris Europe
Specialists in rolled and extruded products, with the capability and expertise to produce variations for most any application
Leading recycler of aluminium scrap and magnesium -- suppling recycled metal and specification alloys back to the industry
Comprehensive quality management system for all specified material features
Continuous monitoring and documentation requirements throughout the manufacturing process that meet compliance requirements of customers and governmental institutions
Provider of customized solutions, in addition to standard aluminium products
The infrastructure and the expertise to manufacture semi-finished and finished products, including engineering, machining, welding, and surface treatment products
Our Business
Aleris’s Europe segment is comprised of the rolled and extruded products and recycling operations in Europe, Wales and a single extrusion facility in China. The Europe segment:
produces rolled products for a wide variety of technically sophisticated applications, including aerospace plate and sheet, brazing sheet, automotive sheet, and other uses in the engineering, construction, transportation and packaging industry segments;
produces extruded aluminum products targeted towards the transportation, electrical, mechanical engineering, and building and construction sectors; and
also includes certain aluminum melting, processing and recycling operations that convert scrap and dross (a byproduct of melting aluminum) and combine these materials with other alloy agents as needed to produce recycled metal and specification alloys.
Aleris was formed in 2004 through the merger of Commonwealth Industries, Inc. and IMCO Recycling Inc.[1]
In February 2009, the US Justice Department filed suit against Aleris alleging that 15 of its plants had violated the Clean Air Act by emission of pollutants. In August 2009, Aleris settled the suit with the government, and agreed to pay a $4.6 million fine and spend an additional $4.2 million on new pollution controls at its plants.[2][3]
Aleris filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy on 12 February 2009.[4] It announced plans in May 2010 to exit bankruptcy as a privately-held company owned by investment funds of Apollo Management, Oaktree Capital Management, and Sankaty Advisors.[5][dated info]
Aleris filed with the SEC to raise up to $100 million in an IPO in April 2011.[6]
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Leading North American manufacturer of Rolled Aluminum Products, many for technically sophisticated applications
Global leader in Aluminum Recycling and in the production of specification alloy
One of the industry’s lowest-cost manufacturers of continuous-cast sheet and direct-chill products, as well as a leader in quality and services
An innovator in coating solutions
Facilities that are able to process both primary and recycled scrap aluminum, providing the flexibility to respond to customer needs and industry trends
Experienced team of metal buyers throughout the U.S., Canada and Mexico
Our Businesses
Rolled Products North America
Aleris’s Rolled Products North America (RPNA) segment produces rolled products for a wide variety of applications, including building and construction, distribution, transportation and other uses in consumer durables general industrial segments.
Recycling and Specification Alloys Americas
Aleris’s Recycling and Specification Alloy Americas (RSAA) segment includes aluminum melting, processing and recycling activities, as well as its specification alloys manufacturing business. The segment’s specification alloy operations combine various aluminum scrap types with hardeners and other additives to produce alloys and chemical compositions with specific properties (including increased strength, formability and wear resistance) as specified by customers for their particular applications.
Aleris Rolled Products North America
Aleris Rolled Products is proud to provide quality products and services to customers throughout North America. As part of its complete portfolio of offerings for a diverse range of customers, the Company manufactures rolled products both through the continuous-casting process as well as via the direct-chill rolling ingot casting process for more precisely engineered higher-end applications. Our large rolling mills in Lewisport, Kentucky, and Newport, Ohio, begin the process by turning both prime and recycled aluminum into some of the highest-quality aluminum coil and reroll in our industry. This coil can be rolled to gauge and sent directly to our customers in a mill finish, or further processed by slitting, embossing, or coating within our mill.
Our mills can also provide reroll to our downstream operations in Clayton, New Jersey, and Buckhannon, West Virginia. There, the metal is further processed by rolling to gauge, slitting, and applying a specialty coating for some customers. Other key Aleris plants include our Ashville, Ohio, plant that paints and fabricates products sold under the ALSCO brand name, and our Roxboro, North Carolina, paint facility.
Aleris Rolled Products Highlights
Direct-chill coil and continuous-cast coil
Numerous alloys, tempers, widths, and gauges
Industry-leading coated products, including acrylics and polyesters in a variety of colors and gloss, as well as many specialty coatings
Used in everything from gutter and downspouts to massive trailers
Key industries we serve in North America: Building and Construction, Transportation, Packaging, Electrical, and Consumer Durable
A large portion of our business reaches customers through our valued distributor partners
Quality and Service from Coast to Coast
We strive to provide the most-consistent and highest-quality products in the industry. Our product engineering group works with customers to resolve problems and develop new opportunities whenever, and wherever, they may arise. And our sales and customer service groups are highly trained and technically equipped to provide fast, accurate, and friendly service.
Aluminum Recycling
Aleris’ aluminum recycling operations have become a recycling leader in the Americas through its emphasis on superior technology, product quality, customer service, and through the expansion of existing plants and the acquisition of others. This business currently operates 19 US-based facilities in eight states. (Click here to view plant locations and capabilities)
We offer a wide range of metal recycling services and specification-alloy products made to order. The recycling facilities are able to process both primary and secondary scrap aluminum, giving us a great degree of flexibility to respond to your needs and industry trends.
Industries served:
Extrusion
Can sheet
Transportation
Construction
Steel
Scrap Processing
Aluminum that is recycled by Aleris includes many types of post-consumer and industrial scrap, new scrap from the manufacturing of cans and other products, and dross which is skim from the aluminum melting process. Aleris is able to sort, crush, shred, clean, and melt the scrap, then deliver it to metal customers in ingot, sow, or molten form.
Materials being processed:
Dross. Aluminum dross, one of the principal materials recycled by Aleris, forms on the top of material in reverberatory furnaces during the melting process.
New Scrap. This new scrap is generated from the manufacture of auto wheels, engine blocks and heads, can stock, extrusions, building materials, and other types of aluminum scrap.
Old Scrap. Old scrap such as used beverage cans (UBCs), vehicles, building components, other types of industrial and consumer scrap.
Milling
The Aleris milling operations recycle black dross and saltcake through proprietary dry and wet milling processes to separate the components of the materials, thereby reducing the overall volume of waste material produced and returning a portion of them to re-usable products, including aluminum and various mineral oxides.
Melting
Aleris operates both reverberatory and rotary furnaces. Solid scrap aluminum is converted into a liquid form during the melting process. Throughout the melting process, additional alloying elements can be added to achieve a specified chemistry required for various end use needs. The molten metal can be cast into various shapes such as ingot, RSI, or Deox. It can even be transported to customers in a molten state for direct charge to their casting equipment.
Manufacturers needing consistently processed recycled aluminum material rely on Aleris to supply them with the needed material. Aleris offers a tolling fee to accept, inspect, shred, separate, de-lacquer, and melt aluminum owned by its customers. After the melting process is completed, the aluminum is cast and delivered to the customer. Products can be delivered to customers in the following forms:
Molten
Ingot form
Sow form
Deox cone
Casting Process
The molten aluminum from the melting process is poured into a mold allowing it to solidify into particular shapes:
Low-profile sow
Several sizes of ingot
2-way sows
4-way sows
Deox cones
Aluminum Deoxidizers
Aleris produces a full range of aluminum deoxidizers for use in iron and steel production. All grades are produced to conform to ASTM Specification B-37-96 and meet the steel industry standards. Aluminum deoxidizers are available in a wide variety of shapes including:
Briquettes
Cones
Pyramids
Shot
Shreds
All products are provided in a variety of packaging styles to meet your unique requirements:
Boxes
Bundles
Bags
Super sacks
Truckloads
Specification Alloys
Do you have specific alloy needs? Our specification alloy operations can combine various aluminum scrap types with hardeners and other additives to produce alloys and chemical compositions as specified by you for your particular applications.
Specification alloy customers generate scrap or purchase scrap, then have it delivered directly to one of the six Aleris specification alloy plants located in the US, Canada, or Mexico. After being inspected for quality and degree of compliance within receiving specifications, the material is processed, melted, and returned to the customer. Aleris also acquires materials from the open market to produce specification alloy products that we then sell back to the open market.
Melting
Aleris operates both reverberatory and rotary furnaces. Various alloys and grades of scrap are melted into a furnace in an attempt to meet certain chemistry requirements to adhere to the alloy specification needed for casting.
Casting
Aleris has highly qualified, knowledgeable employees who are experienced with the entire casting operation. Once the specifications are received by the customer and integrated into our casting operations, the scrap is melted and the molten aluminum alloy is poured into a mold allowing it to solidify into special shapes:
Low-profile sow
Several sizes of ingot
2-way sows
4-way sows
Specification alloy industries served:
Automotive
Small engine
Appliances
Electrical and consumer products
ALSCO®
ALSCO® offers a broad range of residential and light commercial aluminum building products. The company was founded in 1947, and is well known for its complete line of trim products in a host of popular designer colors. With the industry’s broadest offering, ALSCO is a single source for all your aluminum trim product needs:
Soffit
Fascia
Trim
Trim coil
Siding
Gutter systems
Gutter protection
As the only vertically integrated manufacturer of aluminum products for the building industry, ALSCO is able to optimize every step in this manufacturing process, resulting in superior recycled aluminum products that are made in the USA.
For more information on the ALSCO product line, please visit our site at http://www.alscometals.com.
ALSCO® is a registered trademark of Aleris Rolled Products, Inc.
ETS Schaefer, LLC.
A subsidiary of Aleris International Inc.
ETS Schaefer has been a true pioneer, developing the most cutting-edge technologies for the refractory industry. Located in Macedonia, Ohio, the company offers a wide variety of fabricated and commodity products, and is respected as a global leader in the application and installation of ceramic fiber insulation products. Because of its innovative heritage and problem-solving expertise, ETS Schaefer gets the call when a customer needs to increase operating efficiency, improve production capacity, and trim operating costs by reducing both fuel consumption and costly downtime. You’ll find our products hard at work in a variety of industries, including:
Aluminum
Carbon
Ceramics
Forging
Foundry
Glass
Heat treating
Nickel
Specialty alloy
Steel
Metals Purchasing Americas
Aleris International, Inc. is one of the largest consumers of aluminum scrap and by-products in North America. Our experienced team of buyers purchase essentially all grades of aluminum for our network of recycling and manufacturing facilities spread throughout the US, Canada and Mexico. We employ a wide range of furnaces and processing equipment across these sites, allowing us to safely clean and refine recycled scrap, whether it’s from the lowest recovery drosses and impure post consumer scrap to clean industrial scrap.
Here are some main types of scrap that Aleris regularly purchases:
Painted siding
Mixed clips and solids (all alloys)
Turnings/borings/grindings (all alloys)
Lithographic sheet
Old cast/sheet (tense/taint tabor)
Auto/truck wheels
New/old extrusions
Shredded aluminum
Various grades of auto cast (twitch)
Aluminum/copper radiators
Dross/slag
RSI (per analysis)
Aleris Europe
Specialists in rolled and extruded products, with the capability and expertise to produce variations for most any application
Leading recycler of aluminium scrap and magnesium -- suppling recycled metal and specification alloys back to the industry
Comprehensive quality management system for all specified material features
Continuous monitoring and documentation requirements throughout the manufacturing process that meet compliance requirements of customers and governmental institutions
Provider of customized solutions, in addition to standard aluminium products
The infrastructure and the expertise to manufacture semi-finished and finished products, including engineering, machining, welding, and surface treatment products
Our Business
Aleris’s Europe segment is comprised of the rolled and extruded products and recycling operations in Europe, Wales and a single extrusion facility in China. The Europe segment:
produces rolled products for a wide variety of technically sophisticated applications, including aerospace plate and sheet, brazing sheet, automotive sheet, and other uses in the engineering, construction, transportation and packaging industry segments;
produces extruded aluminum products targeted towards the transportation, electrical, mechanical engineering, and building and construction sectors; and
also includes certain aluminum melting, processing and recycling operations that convert scrap and dross (a byproduct of melting aluminum) and combine these materials with other alloy agents as needed to produce recycled metal and specification alloys.