Company Profile
Wise Alloys LLC
Company Overview
Wise Alloys operates as one of the largest single employers in the Muscle Shoals area. It has a highly qualified and experienced workforce with approximately 760 hourly and 250 salaried employees.
There are two primary facilities comprising the Muscle Shoals operations – the Alloys Plant and Alabama Reclamation.
The 4 million square foot Alloys Plant casts molten aluminium into sheet ingot. The ingot is then rolled into coils of aluminium sheet approximately 1/100 of an inch thick. The facility has a current capacity for finished products of 950 million pounds per year. Its sheet products are used in the manufacture of beverage cans, ends, tabs, food containers and other products including trailer roof and fin stock.
The 215,000-square-foot Alabama Reclamation facility is where shredded recycled cans are melted and purified in preparation for being recast into aluminium ingots. The facility was built by Reynolds in 1969. The main operations at the plant comprise eight furnaces with a capacity to melt 500 million pounds of scrap per year.
Company History
Founded in 1941 to manufacture aluminium sheet for airplanes during World War II, the original 2,000-acre facility in Muscle Shoals was owned by Reynolds Aluminium until it was sold to Wise Alloys in March 1999.
Connecticut businessman and entrepreneur David D’Addario had been a minority owner of Wise since 1999, but purchased a majority ownership and controlling interest in the firm in 2001 and now serves as its Chairman/Chief Executive Officer.