RECORD OUTPUT AND ?1.4 M INVESTMENT AT NOVELIS WARRINGTON
This year is proving to be eventful for the Warrington recycling operation of Novelis Inc. Production figures at the Warrington used beverage can recycling plant have broken all plant records, with 6 billion cans being recycled in the first 9 months of the year. In addition, the completion of a ?1.4 million investment, which boosts the operation's can reprocessing capacity by 25% and underpins the company's commitment to recycling.
This year is proving to be eventful for the Warrington recycling operation of Novelis Inc., the world's largest aluminium roller and can recycler. Production figures at the Latchford Locks used beverage can recycling plant have broken all plant records, with 6 billion cans being recycled in the first nine months of the year. This month marks another significant event: the completion of a ?1.4 million investment, which boosts the operation's can reprocessing capacity by 25% and underpins the company's commitment to recycling.
This step change in output will be achieved by adding the infrastructure and equipment needed to move molten metal around the site. It is in addition to the continuous process improvements that have progressively been growing the can recycling capacity at the plant enabling Novelis to recycle cans from across Europe.
'Last year, Novelis reprocessed over 30 billion used beverage cans globally. The plant at Warrington is our major recycling facility in Europe and the only dedicated plant of its type in the region,' said Nick Madden, who is president of Novelis' European Can, Litho and Recycling business unit. 'We are very excited about this latest investment. It demonstrates the commitment of the aluminium rolled products sector to recycling and confirms that reprocessing capacity across Europe is not an issue for aluminium cans.'
The Used Beverage Can Plant is Europe's only dedicated facility for aluminium beverage can recycling. Each year it remelts billions of post-consumer drink cans and casts them into ingots that are then reprocessed for the beverage can market.
The aluminium can is the most valuable beverage container in the recycling stream, providing both economic and environmental benefits. Aluminium cans are infinitely recyclable, and can go from the consumer, through the recycling process and back on the store shelf as a new can in as little as 60 days. Not only does can recycling reduce landfill waste, it also saves 95% of the energy that would otherwise be required to make new aluminium.
