Our Investment For The Future...

It is Keymark's policy and responsibility to be environmentally friendly to the communities where we manufacture as well as the areas in which our extrusions are installed and maintained.  We are continually focused on improving our aluminum extrusion manufacturing operations to reduce waste and maximize efficiency.  The following are areas in which we demonstrate our dedication and efforts to eliminate those wastes, control pollution, and focus on recycling/recovery.

Casting:
Keymark Corporation extrudes over eighty-percent of its weekly production lbs. from prime aluminum billet produced internally at our secondary casting facility.  Over 45% of the aluminum billet is composed from recycled internal or outside purchased aluminum scrap.  Documentation may be provided to help ensure the requirements of the U.S. Green Building Council.

Extrusion (Die Shop):
Caustic (Sodium Hydroxide) Scrubber Unit - Removes the caustic out of the air before exhausting to the atmosphere.

Paint Lines: 

 Acetone and Xylene are used to clean the paint equipment and flush out the lines between color changes.  They are 100% recycled on site and recovered for reuse.  Thermal Oxidizers - The (3) units remove 95% of the volatile organic compounds (VOC's) from the air prior to emission to the atmosphere by way of burning off the compounds prior to exhaust.  Waste Water Treatment - Paint line pretreatment creates a chemical wastewater. The waste water is completely treated internally and we meet all State and Federal compliances before the water is discharged.

Anodizing :
Caustic Recovery Unit - Removes dissolved aluminum from the caustic, thus allowing the caustic to be continuously re-used.
Aluminum Trihydrate - Product from the caustic recovery unit.  This material is given to an industry that uses it as a beneficial re-use product in their manufacturing process.
APU (Acid Purification Unit) - In the anodizing process, the APU removes excess aluminum from the solution and returns it back to the anodizing tanks for continuous re-use.  This recovery prevents the need for treatment or wasting the used solution.
Waste Water Treatment - The anodizing process creates waste water.  The waste water goes through a full in-house water treatment system and we meet all State and Federal compliances prior to the water being discharged.

Thermal Break:
In the thermal break department, left over aluminum chips combined with polyurethane are inherent in the process, due to the debridging operation.  The aluminum/polyurethane chips are not recycled internally, due to the toxicity of emissions if Keymark were to utilize our melting facility internally, instead the material is sent to a recycler for separation and re-use.

Packaging:
All of our cardboard used in the packaging process is of 100% recycled content.  Also, all of our leftover cardboard or scrap is then turned back over to a recycler.