JW Aluminum recently announced plans to invest $5 million to expand its Mt. Holly operations. The company will construct a new aluminum melting facility that will be adjacent to the Berkeley County landfill on U.S. Highway 52 This new location will enable JW Aluminum to use methane gas generated by the landfill as a green power source.
“We have a great working relationship with Berkeley County and are pleased that we will be able to grow our offsite melting capacity to help compliment our company's total throughput for recycled aluminum," said JW Aluminum General Manager Rick Vance. "We are excited that we will be able to use the county's landfill gas to provide energy to this new facility. We're going to be able to take a valuable resource that was being flared into the environment and use this energy to melt aluminum. We really see this as a win-win for all involved.”
In 2004, JW Aluminum received the Sustainable Charleston Overall Achievement Award in recognition of significant environmental and community stewardship in numerous areas including energy efficiency, waste elimination and reduction, and water conservation.
Founded in 1979 as Jim Walter Metals, a division of the Jim Walter Corp., the company originally produced cast aluminum coils for use in the construction and home building industry. In 1987, it became JW Aluminum Co. and then in October of 2005, JW Aluminum went from being a stand-alone company to a member of the Superior Plus, Inc. family of companies.
The company is a leading producer of specialty, flat-rolled aluminum products that are used in a variety of consumer and commercial applications, such as coated and bare fin stock, building and distributor sheet, automotive heat shield, cable wrap, litho sheet and light gauge converter foil. It is also one of more than 300 recycling businesses operating in South Carolina.
JW Aluminum employs 800 people at three manufacturing locations in Mt. Holly, S.C., Russellville, Ark., and St. Louis, Mo.
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