Birmingham's Bermco Aluminum plans to invest up to $10 million on a new facility in Lincoln, allowing the company to more than double output and putting it closer to the automotive customers that now account for most of its business.
Share Tweet 3 Comments If Bermco is successful in purchasing a vacant 100,000-square-foot building in Honda's backyard, it will move all of its Birmingham aluminum smelting and Bessemer scrapping and shredding operations to the new building, according to Steve Weinstein, the company's chief executive.
"We buy a commodity and sell a commodity, so our ability to be profitable comes from operations," Weinstein said. "Our plan is to be able to double our output while at the same time net a significant lower cost per pound."
Bermco buys scrap aluminum that comes from everything from soda cans to borings from aircraft engines, melts it down and casts it into 1,200-pound blocks known as sows or smaller brick-shaped ingots.
A new addition to the plant is a robot that stacks the ingots while they're too hot for human hands and doesn't come with the strained back, pinched fingers and burned forearms that were once costly in worker's compensation claims and lost productivity.
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