CMA signs agreement with Worthington

Archiv – Australia / United States | Australian metal recycling group CMA Corporation has entered into a long-term strategic business relationship with US-based steel group Worthington Industries – a global company that processes steel for use in the automotive, construction, hardware and aerospace industries.
Under the terms of the agreement, Worthington will provide CMA Recycling with approximately 4000 tonnes of ferrous scrap each month for recycling at its Meretec recycling facility in East Chicago. The Meretec de-zincing process safely removes and captures the zinc coating from galvanised scrap and produces a clean black scrap – or so-called Meretec Meltstock – which CMA delivers to foundries.Australia / United States | Australian metal recycling group CMA Corporation has entered into a long-term strategic business relationship with US-based steel group Worthington Industries – a global company that processes steel for use in the automotive, construction, hardware and aerospace industries.
Under the terms of the agreement, Worthington will provide CMA Recycling with approximately 4000 tonnes of ferrous scrap each month for recycling at its Meretec recycling facility in East Chicago. The Meretec de-zincing process safely removes and captures the zinc coating from galvanised scrap and produces a clean black scrap – or so-called Meretec Meltstock – which CMA delivers to foundries.
Through this new relationship, CMA’s Meretec facility is expected to produce around 80 tonnes of zinc particulate and approximately 3920 tonnes of clean black Meretec Meltstock per month. At full capacity, the Chicago facility is capable of recycling 125 000 tonnes of galvanised steel per annum into around 2000 tonnes of zinc particulate and approximately 122 500 tonnes of clean black steel.
CMA Corporation’€™s Managing Director Doug Rowe says the relationship with Worthington represents an important step for CMA in building its presence in the US market. And he adds: ’There is significant demand from foundries for the clean black scrap that our patented Meretec de-zincing process delivers. We look forward to expanding our US-based client base in the months ahead and feel confident that our plant in East Chicago will soon be running at full capacity.’€™
According to CMA’€™s Central Manager for the USA Andrew Baker, the agreement with Worthington was a win-win opportunity. ‘€˜Our patented Meretec process provides Worthington with complete confidence that their scrap arisings are being handled and processed to the highest technical and environmental standards. With our new US corporate offices adjoining the Meretec recycling facility due to open in a few weeks and significant interest in our de-zincing technology, we are ready to grow our presence in the US and take the business to the next level.’€™