INMETCO Declares Bankruptcy
For the second time in less than a decade, INMETCO has filed bankruptcy. The Ellwood City recycling plant filed a Chapter 7 bankruptcy in the Western District of Pennsylvania bankruptcy court on January 31, 2024. According to published reports, eight employees were kept on at the plant after the initial round of layoffs in October and affected workers received no severance pay. In 2015, former parent company Horsehead announced INMETCO was expanding its facilities with a $10 million dollar project. Later in 2015, a fire broke out and raged at the Ellwood City facility. A year later, it filed for…