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An $800 million plant in the Augusta Corporate Park that employs more than 200 people is now fully operational. Aurubis Richmond, LLC held a ceremony to mark its “first melt,” the process of refining scrap metals for new uses. “We’re talking about a broad variety of recycling materials that are typically end-of-life or production scrap. We’re talking about electronic scrap, printed circuit boards, metal shredders,” David Schultheis, President and Managing Director of the plant, told ABD. “Our main products here are blister copper and then a lot of other metals,

Damaged buildings, thousands of trees lost, and a $6 million cleanup faced Augusta University one year ago. Hurricane Helene devastated parts of the CSRA as a full-strength hurricane, something the region had never experienced. The one-year anniversary is this Saturday. There are still areas of destruction and scars marking where trees and buildings once stood, but there are also signs of recovery. At the Summerville campus of Augusta University (AU), damaged roofs and facades have been repaired, but the decorative ironwork at the main entrance off of Walton Way is