Flack Global Metals, First American Resources open coil coating, metal processing facility

Flack Global Metals, Chicago, and First American Resources, Atlanta, have announced plans to develop a new coil coating and metal processing facility in Athens, Ga. The 360,000-sq.-ft. facility will be designed for flatness/surface-critical applications in aluminum, stainless steel, and bare and prepainted carbon (cold-rolled, galvanized, galvalume, and zinc) for appliance, automotive, truck and trailer/transportation, architectural, and HVAC manufacturers in the Southeast.

The facility will offer coil coating for material up to 62 in. wide with gauge capability of 0.009 to 0.050 in. It also will include in-line tension leveling, clean room/clean-surface capability, continuous optical surface monitoring, a high-speed slitting line, embossing, cut-to-length, and inspection.

The facility will be qualified and ready for initial trials in May/June 2018.

Flack Global Metals designs and fulfills supply chains for OEMs using flat-rolled steel, aluminum, and stainless. First American Resources supplies decorative and functional coating systems primarily to the domestic residential building products and automotive markets.