Novelis, commissioned a new coating line for beverage can end stock and an expanded recycling center at its Pindamonhangaba, Brazil complex.
The company invested approximately $106 million in the combined projects that will add 100,000 metric tons of coating capacity and 190,000 metric tons of recycling capacity when fully operational.
The new coating line is designed specifically for beverage can end stock. The addition of the 100,000 ton line doubles the market’s capacity to supply coated can end stock. Novelis expects to begin shipping commercial product from the new line in the coming months.
With this expansion, the plant’s recycling center, already the largest in South America, will nearly double its capacity from 200,000 to 390,000 metric tons per year when fully commissioned.
Published in the October 2014 Edition of American Recycler News
