## Wise boosts can recycling capacity
_By Jerry Powell, Resource Recycling_
One of the top producers of the aluminum used to make new cans has dramatically increased its ability to melt old containers.
Wise Alloys is now operating its new, $25 million system as part of the firm's giant Muscle Shoals, Alabama recycling complex, which is the largest used beverage can (UBC) melting facility in the world. The investment means that Wise now operates two shredding systems, three delaquering kilns and seven melting furnaces at the huge complex. Cans for the plant are supplied by Wise Recycling, which operates processing facilities in eight states from Colorado to Virginia.
The new 7-acre addition includes a 40-ton-per-hour, 1,500-horsepower shredder, which feeds a delaquering kiln, where the aluminum shreds are dried and the coatings removed. The shreds then enter a reverberatory furnace, where the metal is melted. The molten material is removed from the furnace in 40-ton lots and poured into crucibles, which are shipped to a nearby ingot casting plant. The ingots are eventually converted to aluminum can stock, which is sold to canmakers. The new recycling system, which opened earlier this year, boosted the company's UBC melting capacity by more than half.
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