(Business Wire)  Horsehead Holding Corp. (NASDAQ: ZINC) today announced that its subsidiary, The International Metals Reclamation Company, LLC (“INMETCO”), plans to expand its recycling facility in Ellwood City, Pennsylvania. Horsehead plans to spend up to $10 million on the expansion project at INMETCO. This investment will allow INMETCO to better meet the increased demand for its recycling services by providing approximately 15% more capacity to process additional specialty steel wastes and batteries. Orders for long lead time items are expected to be placed by the end of March 2015. INMETCO expects to begin to see benefits from the initial phases of the expansion by as early as the first quarter of 2016 with project completion slated for the second half of 2016.

About Horsehead

Horsehead Holding Corp. (“Horsehead”) (Nasdaq: ZINC) is the parent company of Horsehead Corporation, a leading U.S. producer of specialty zinc and zinc-based products and a leading recycler of electric arc furnace dust; INMETCO, a leading recycler of metals-bearing wastes and a leading processor of nickel-cadmium (NiCd) batteries in North America; and Zochem Inc., a zinc oxide producer located in Brampton, Ontario. Horsehead, headquartered in Pittsburgh, Pa., employs approximately 700 people and has seven facilities throughout the U.S. and Canada. Visit www.horsehead.net for more information.

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