Aluminum manufacturer Novelis faced an intriguing business challenge: how do you provide a continuous supply of aluminum to support production of a highly-anticipated pickup truck at plants located hundreds of miles away — all while ensuring safety and sustainability, optimizing capital investment, and providing efficiency, flexibility and visibility into shipments?
The answer turned out to be a closed-loop recycling network that moves finished aluminum coils from a fabrication facility in Oswego, New York to various production stamping plants in Michigan, New York and Kentucky and then transports the aluminum scrap generated from the stamping process back to the Oswego re-melt facility to be incorporated into new coil production. The entire process runs 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, with a truck heading out on the road approximately every 40 minutes.