Hydro Aluminum Metals USA LLC, a producer of recycled aluminum products, has announced plans to invest $85 million to expand its manufacturing operation in Henderson, Kentucky. The announcement follows a $15 million investment made at the Henderson facility less than two years ago.
The addition of 80,000 square feet will bring the plant’s total square footage to nearly 200,000 and will allow the company to introduce its HyForge casting technology to the Henderson plant. The new HyForge casthouse will serve the automotive market’s need for smaller diameter, high-quality billets that can be forged directly into automotive components. The process reduces the number of processing steps needed for the operation, leading to a more cost-efficient, higher-quality product compared with the traditional process. The more efficient process also uses a high share of end-of-life scrap, allowing the company to deliver billets with a low carbon footprint.
The HyForge technology has already been successfully implemented at the company’s primary plant in Norway and its recycling plant in Germany.
The Henderson project is expected to be operational in 2026 and will include the addition of 31 new jobs.
