With our patented process, we have mastered the mini mill.
Our pledge is to deliver the finest aluminum sheet, no matter your time constraints or special requirements.

BREAKING UP We start with baled, used beverage containers, or UBCs, sending them through our uniquely designed shredding system that cuts them into uniformly sized pieces.

DE LACQUERING By heating the UBCs, we remove any coatings and trace moisture, being careful to incinerate any leftover gases to prevent pollution. Surplus heat is returned to the kiln because we don’t believe in waste.

MELTING The UBCs along with prime and other scrap aluminum are fed into the melting furnace forming a pool of liquid aluminum. This is where blending occurs depending on your requirements.

STRENGTHENING The liquid aluminum is now strengthened and made more formable by adding alloying elements to the mixture. All alloys meet the Aluminum Association’s designed requirements while allowing us to use up to 95% recycled aluminum.

CLEANING Liquid aluminum then flows into cleaning units of the molten metal treatment facility where a special blend of gases are injected to extract impurities. Through all these steps, we test for chemical composition to ensure that the exact chemistry is maintained.

THE CASTER The liquid aluminum now arrives at the most technologically advanced continuous caster in the world, the Lauener Block Caster. We use chilling blocks to maintain a consistent solidification rate as the product travels through the caster.

HOT MILL The continuous slab exits the caster and reaches our hot rolling mill at 3/4 inch thickness. Exiting the hot mill, it is reduced to less than 1/8th of an inch.

COLD MILL The aluminum sheet is finished to gauges from .005 inches up to .032 inches, within tolerances of +/- .0002 inches. At this point we can apply any coating or color. Our process allows us to deliver your order in record time... each time.

FINISHING At this stage the sheet is tension leveled then is either cleaned and/or coated before moving to be slit to your required width. From here it is on to packaging and shipping to your location.