Business View Magazine | September 2019

54 BUSINESS VIEW MAGAZINE SEPTEMBER 2019 us. We went to India to meet with the Aditya Birla/ Novelis team in July because they’re looking to add a significant amount of equipment. Another project is with Alcoa Corp. in Evansville, Indiana – a company we’ve been with for years. The new equipment we’re providing is a coded scrap melter that removes and volatizes all the coded materials from the scrap metal inside the furnace before melting it. We also do a lot of business with Arconic, Inc., which is a spinoff of Alcoa.” Earlier this year, one of Gillespie & Powers’ customers in Kentucky had a catastrophic furnace failure caused by water inside a casting that they were re-melting. When water hits aluminum, it tries to expand to a thousand times its size. There was an explosion inside the furnace that exerted two million pounds of force. The unit remained intact - only the roof blew off. Fortunately, nobody was hurt but the equipment was put out of service. Gillespie & Powers was one of the customer’s first phone calls. G & P helped them determine the cause, worked with the insurance company, repaired the furnace,