Audio Description: Gentle music plays.
Visual Description: Truist logo appears on screen in front of a purple background. Next, there is an overhead view of the Owl’s Head Alloys facility and a close-up of their logo on the side of a water tank. Then, Travis Jones is seated in an office speaking to the camera.
On-Screen Text: Travis Jones, Chief Financial Officer, Owl’s Head Alloys.
Travis Jones: In one of our first meetings, I remember sitting around the table with the Truist team. They asked us two questions. They said, "Do you want a bank that's willing to fund this deal, or do you want a bank that's willing to grow with you in the future?" We said, "We want a partnership." And Truist was able to offer us that.
Visual Description: Blocks of compacted aluminum scrap metal are stacked on top of each other.
On-Screen Text: The pursuit of sustainable growth. A Truist client success story.
Visual Description: A montage showing the aluminum recycling process plays, including shots of the Owl’s Head Alloys facility, a wheel loader, aluminum melting, and compacted scrap metal.
Travis Jones: What's cool about Owl's Head Alloys is that we're in the secondary aluminum processing industry, and we process up to half a billion pounds of aluminum each year that would otherwise end up in landfills across the United States.
Visual Description: Aluminum ingots embedded with the Owl’s Head logo are stacked on top of each other. Next, Travis Jones is seated in an office speaking to the camera.
Travis Jones: Sustainability is at the forefront of what we do each and every day …
Visual Description: Travis walks past the blocks of compacted aluminum scrap metal, which are stacked four to six blocks high, and toward the processing facility.
Travis Jones: … whether that's through recycling, whether that's through reduction of CO2 emissions for the aluminum industry …
Visual Description: Outside view of the Owl’s Head processing facility, where wheel loaders and trucks are parked in the accompanying lot. Next, a wheel loader carries several blocks of compacted scrap metal through the lot. Then, Travis greets another Owl’s Head employee who is working in the lot.
Travis Jones: … or whether that is investing in a sustainable future for our employees.
Visual Description: Travis talks and laughs with an Owl’s Head employee. Then, a different employee drives a wheel loader through the lot.
Travis Jones: So, one of the unique things about Owl's Head is that we're 100% employee-owned, which means we have an employee stock ownership plan.
Visual Description: Two Owl’s Head employees are shoveling melted aluminum into the ingot casts. Then, a montage of the aluminum recycling process plays, including a shot of an employee driving a loader, two employees working with processing machinery, and a view of the outside of the facility where a wheel loader is carrying blocks of compacted scrap metal through the lot.
Travis Jones: It's really cool to be able to work with people who know that they are going to have a sustainable future when they retire.
Visual Description: Travis Jones is seated in an office speaking to the camera.
Travis Jones: So, Owl's Head was presented with a fantastic opportunity to grow.
Visual Description: There are dozens of aluminum ingots stacked on top of each other in a dirt field outside the facility. Next, there is an overhead shot of another dirt field outside of the facility filled with compacted scrap metal blocks.
Travis Jones: There's a new aluminum rolling mill that's being built in Columbus, Mississippi, and we're actually awarded that bid to partner with that company.
Visual Description: Travis is seated in an office speaking to the camera.
Travis Jones: One of the objectives that we had was to secure credit facilities to enable us to do that.
Visual Description: Travis and Craig Carlson, his Truist relationship manager, are walking through the Owl’s Head processing facility together.
On-Screen Text: Craig Carlson, Truist Relationship Manager.
Travis Jones: Our relationship had been brewing for several years with Truist and Owl's Head.
Visual Description: Travis walks Craig through the facility, showing him each step of the aluminum recycling process.
Travis Jones: We were able to work with Truist, their industry expertise within the aluminum industry, but also their knowledge of 100% employee-owned companies.
Visual Description: A montage of the aluminum ingot-making process plays, showing clips of the aluminum being pressed into the ingot molds and stacked on top of each other.
Travis Jones: They were able to help us secure those credit facilities, as well as offer us advice that we were not able to get from other banks.
Visual Description: Travis is seated in an office speaking to the camera.
Travis Jones: It looks like we're in the manufacturing industry, but we're really in the customer service industry. We're a customer service company through and through. One of the great things that we liked about Truist is that we felt like we shared that same value.
Visual Description: Travis and Craig walk through the Owl’s Head Alloys facility. Next, there is an overhead shot of the compacted aluminum scrap blocks stacked on top of each other outside the facility.
Travis Jones: They're focused on customer service for us every single day. They're just a phone call away if there's anything that we need, and they're there to help us grow.
Visual Description: An employee driving a wheel loader brings scrap aluminum across the facility’s lot and inside to be melted down. Next, Craig and Travis are talking to each other in front of the machine melting aluminum.
Travis Jones: As we worked through the deal with Truist, we really got a sense that they were going to be there with us to the end.
Visual Description: Travis is seated in an office speaking to the camera.
Travis Jones: We felt like, with Truist, the sky is the limit.
Audio Description: Bright music plays.
Visual Description: Truist Commercial title and logo appear on screen in front of a purple background.
On-Screen Text: Truist Commercial. Truist.com/OwlsHeadAlloys. Copyright 2025 Truist Bank, Member FDIC. Truist Financial Corporation. Truist, the Truist logo and Truist Purple are service marks of Truist Financial Corporation. All rights reserved.
