Eramet Marietta is planning a substantial upgrade. Earlier this month the company notified the Ohio EPA of its intentions to reline furnace #1 with work beginning in April.

 

The project would result in a 10 percent decrease in emissions. The furnace is expected to undergo an outage for four to six weeks while it is relined.

 

A second phase still in the works would replace a baghouse dust collector on that same furnace to catch particulate dust, further reducing emissions by 50 percent. However, the collector is still in the design phase.