Aleris is a global leader in the production and sale of aluminum rolled and extruded products, recycled aluminum, and specifications alloy manufacturing. From its headquarters in Beachwood, Ohio, a suburb of Cleveland, Aleris operates more than 40 production facilities on a combined basis throughout the Americas, Europe, and Asia.  We operate primarily through three reportable business segments: Rolled Products North America, Recycling and Specification Alloys Americas and Europe, providing products and services to customers in a variety of industries.

Aleris was formed on December 9, 2004, through the merger of Commonwealth Industries, Inc. and IMCO Recycling Inc.  The merger created a vertically integrated aluminum company traded on the New York Stock Exchange.  Since then, Aleris has strengthened its business through internal growth and operational improvements, as well as strategic acquisitions including the downstream aluminum business of Corus Group plc, which doubled the company’s size and significantly expanded its presence in Europe and China.  We are a privately held company, majority owned by a committed ownership group led by certain investment funds managed by Oaketree Capital Management, L.P., affiliates of Apollo Management, L.P., and Sankaty Advisors, LLC.

Our Businesses

• Rolled Products North America. Aleris’s Rolled Products North America (RPNA) segment produces rolled products for a wide variety of applications, including building and construction, distribution, transportation and other uses in consumer durables general industrial segments. Except for depot sales, which are for standard size products, substantially all of the rolled aluminum products in the United States are manufactured to specific customer requirements, using direct-chill and continuous ingot cast technologies that allow Aleris to use and offer a variety of alloys and products for a number of end uses. 

• Recycling and Specification Alloys Americas. Aleris’s Recycling and Specification Alloy Americas (RSAA) segment includes aluminum melting, processing and recycling activities, as well as its specification alloys manufacturing business. The segment’s recycling operations convert scrap and dross (a byproduct of melting aluminum) and combine these materials with other alloy agents as needed to produce recycled metal generally for participants in the metal industry serving end-uses related to consumer packaging, transportation and construction. Historically, a significant percentage of these products are sold through “tolling” arrangements, in which Aleris converts customer-owned scrap and dross and returns the recycled metal in ingot or molten form to its customers for a fee. 

The segment’s specification alloy operations combine various aluminum scrap types with hardeners and other additives to produce alloys and chemical compositions with specific properties (including increased strength, formability and wear resistance) as specified by customers for their particular applications. The specification alloy operations typically deliver its recycled and specification alloy products to customers in molten or ingot form. 

•  Europe. Aleris’s Europe segment is comprised of the rolled and extruded products and recycling operations in Europe, Wales and a single extrusion facility in China. The Europe segment produces rolled products for a wide variety of technically sophisticated applications, including aerospace plate and sheet, brazing sheet, automotive sheet, and other uses in the engineering, construction, transportation, and packaging industry segments. Substantially all of the Company’s rolled aluminum products in Europe are manufactured to specific customer requirements, using direct-chill ingot cast technologies that allow the Company to use and offer a variety of alloys and products for a number of technically demanding end uses.

The Europe segment also produces extruded aluminum products targeted towards the transportation, electrical, mechanical engineering, and building and construction sectors. With one of the largest extrusion presses in the world, the Company produces high-end, value-added, large-profile extruded products. The Company further serves its customers by performing value-added fabrication on most of its extruded products. The Company’s extruded products are used for, among other things, urban transport systems, automotive parts, aircraft and windowsills, roofing, window systems and balconies.

The Europe segment also includes certain aluminum melting, processing and recycling activities. These recycling operations convert scrap and dross (a byproduct of melting aluminum) and combine these materials with other alloy agents as needed to produce recycled metal and specification alloys. The operations also recycle magnesium scrap. Historically, a significant percentage of these products are sold through “tolling” arrangements, in which the Company converts customer-owned scrap and dross and returns the recycled metal to its customers for a fee.