Corporate News

ALLIED METAL EXPANDS IN SOUTH

Allied Metal Co., Chicago, has opened a new zinc alloying plant in Chattanooga, Tenn. The 27,000- square-foot facility is the company’s fourth production center. The other three Allied Metal facilities are located in Chicago.

The new manufacturing unit has an annual zinc alloying capacity of fifty million pounds of ingot, margash and sow, including tolling, which boosts the firm’s total zinc alloying capacity to more than 75 million pounds per year.

"This progressive step gives us a broader opportunity to serve the southern zinc die casting market," says Marvin Fink, Allied president.

PENCOR TO BUILD N.H. FACILITY

Pencor Environmental Ventures Inc., Baltimore, has signed a contract with a joint venture construction team to build a $240 million waste paper recycling/deinking facility in Bow, New Hampshire.

Kvaerner Hymac Corp. of Roswell, Ga.; Morse Diesel International of New York, N.Y.; and Sea Crest Construction Co. of Freeport, N.Y., will build a new plant and install the processing equipment, according to Andrew Kaufman, president of Pencor. The three companies have also agreed to contribute the required equity in the recycling facility.

Public Service of New Hampshire will provide the 75-acre site for the 460-ton-per-day recycling facility, as well as electricity, steam and process water. The facility will be located next to the Public Service of New Hampshire Merrimack Station power plant.

Once completed, the facility is expected to have an operating budget of $35 million.

"The entire wastepaper-to-pulp process will use conventional de-inking methods which are environmentally safe," explains Kaufman. "There are no odors, noises or harmful air emissions. In addition, the water used in the process will be thoroughly cleaned and treated before its return to the Merrimack River."

AUTOMATED ACQUIRES GLASS MRFS

Automated Recycling Technologies Inc., Oakhurst, N.J., has acquired two glass material recovery facilities located in New Jersey from Pure Tech International. Automated Recycling Technologies is now the largest processor of post-consumer glass containers in New Jersey, with operations in five locations throughout the state.

LINDEMANN CELEBRATES 10TH U.S. YEAR

Lindemann Recycling Equipment Inc., Charlotte, N.C., is celebrating the company’s tenth year in the U.S. To commemorate what the company describes as a milestone in their corporate growth and total commitment to the scrap processing, refuse treatment and waste processing industry, Lindemann has developed a special 10th Anniversary seal to be displayed on all the company's sales materials and correspondence.

The Northeast Resource Recovery Association’s Materials Marketing Committee has chosen CRInc., Chelmsford, Mass., to be the association’s new plastics buyer. CRInc was chosen from among three other candidates -- R2B2, Resource Recycling Technologies and Laidlaw.

"The CRInc proposal won for its combination of strong features," according to Peg Boyles, NRRA’s market development manager. Among these features were a willingness to accept a mixed stream of household bottles commingled in the same bale, attractive guaranteed one-year floor prices and competitive current prices for all grades, and flexibility in meeting NRRA’s unique transportation requirements, as well as a hefty subsidy for NRRA members handling their own trucking.

The new contract will allow municipalities to bale mixed household bottles. Managers will need to weigh the much lower revenues for mixed plastics against the costs of sorting and storing the material.

In addition, the specification for PET will expand to include all Number 1 household bottles except for colored liquor bottles.

Standard operating procedures will remain similar to those under the existing NRRA plastics marketing program. NRRA will continue to work with members to mix and match loads to market and to handle all paperwork.

DOFASCO PLANS CANADA MILL

Dofasco Inc, Hamilton, Ontario, has announced plans to build a $144 million minimill in Hamilton. Scheduled to be complete at the end of 1996, the minimill will have a capacity of 1.35 million tons of thick slab steel annually. Producing steel at this mill will enable Dofasco to discontinue purchasing 900,000 tons of unrefined steel a year, and will bring the company’s total annual hot-rolled steel capacity to about four million tons.