Metals Purchasing

Aleris is one of the world’s largest consumers of aluminum scrap and by-products. Our experienced team of buyers purchase essentially all grades of aluminum for our network of recycling and manufacturing facilities around the world. We employ a wide range of furnaces and processing equipment, enabling us to safely clean and refine recycled scrap -- from the lowest recovery drosses and impure post consumer scrap, to clean industrial scrap.

Examples of the main types of scrap that Aleris regularly purchases:

Painted siding
Mixed clips and solids (all alloys)
Turnings/borings/grindings (all alloys)
Lithographic sheet
Old cast/sheet (tense/taint tabor)
Auto/truck wheels
New/old extrusions
Shredded aluminum
Various grades of auto cast (twitch)
Aluminum/copper radiators
Dross/slag
RSI (per analysis)

Please click here for a complete list of purchase scrap grades by facility.

For more information, or to contact a metals buyer call +1 216-910-3524 or email