ALVANCE plans to introduce a 100kt state-of-the-art billet and recycling facility adjacent to the smelter using green energy, sourced from the existing hydro-electric plant on site. The billet plant will be equipped with re-melt furnaces that can utilise pre- and post-consumers scrap.

The metal input into the casthouse will be a blend of molten primary metal from the adjacent smelter and secondary metal, a combination unique to Lochaber in the UK which ensures the production of high-quality billets. This will further reduce the environmental impact and carbon footprint of our product and can also help to optimise customer scrap flows.

We will offer a large selection of diameters, ranging from 7” (179 mm) to 11” (279 mm).

We can offer a sawn billet length of up to 8 meters. Our alloy range will cover 6xxx series billets (AlMgSi), mainly 6060/6063, 6005 and 6082.

With the unique set-up of a recycling plant next to a hydro-powered primary smelter, Alvance will ensure a high content of scrap is used to produce billets with one of the lowest CO2 footprints in the world.