Alabama-based Electric Melting Services Company’s Anniston facility in the industrial park off Greenbrier Dear Road recently announced its plans to expand within the next year, leading to more jobs at the plant. The company historically has only handled the repair of induction furnaces — devices that use an electric current to melt metal, which can later be used in such things as the production of pipe valves. The Anniston branch counts local manufacturers M&H Valve as one of its clients.
With the addition of approximately 19,000 square feet of workspace in 2016, according to the company’s vice president of Southern operations, Jimmy Horton, the company will now increase production of specialized water cooling systems used in electric metal-melting furnaces and nearly double its workforce as a result.