Aleris Expanding Kentucky Plant to Meet U.S. Increasing Demand for Automotive Aluminum

To meet North America’s increasing demand for light weight materials Aleris announced plans to invest $350,000 to expand its current rolling aluminum mill in Kentucky and open the company’s first U.S. automotive body sheet production to meet the increasing demand for light weight materials in the North America. Once the Lewisport plant expansion is competed the plant will have the capacity to produce over two hundred tons of automotive body sheet.