Leaders Emerge In The Aluminium Industry’s Race To Zero Carbon
One of the aluminium industry’s major goals continues to be the production of metal in a manner that emits the...
Alcoa
Drop In Alumina And Aluminium Prices Take A Toll On Alcoa’s Q1 Bottom Line
American aluminium pioneer Alcoa Corporation released results for the first quarter of 2019 on Wednesday. The firm’s numbers struggled in the quarter largely due to a decline in global aluminium and alumina prices. In the opening quarter this year Alcoa posted revenues...
Rebound In Prices Propel Alcoa’s Bottom Line Into The Black In The Fourth Quarter
Pittsburgh aluminium pioneer Alcoa Corporation released results for the fourth quarter and full year of 2018 on Wednesday, reporting stronger...
Alcoa To Cut Capacity At Aluminerie de Bécancour’s Lone Operating Potline
Citing the continuing impasse in labor negotiations, Pittsburgh aluminium pioneer Alcoa Corporation announced yesterday the immediate curtailment of half the...
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Management And Union Reach Accord At Alcoa’s Western Australia Operations, Ending Strike
A six-week-long strike will soon end at Alcoa’s Western Australia operations thanks to a new contract agreed to by the plants’ management and labor negotiators earlier this week. According to a statement by the Australia Workers’ Union (AWU), work is to resume Monday at the three alumina refineries and two bauxite mines in the state, […]
Labor And Management At Alcoa’s Western Australia Operations Meet Again To Discuss Contract Offer
Meetings between management and labor at Alcoa’s aluminium operations in Western Australia were scheduled for this week as the two sided continue to attempt to resolve the impasse that has prompted an over six-week-long strike. The meeting, which was to take place yesterday, was to discuss a newly-revised contract offer tendered by Alcoa. Both sides […]
Alcoa Seeks Tariff Reprieve From Trump Administration For Specialty Aluminium
Iconic American aluminium producer Alcoa Corporation has approached the Trump administration to obtain from relief from the Section 232 aluminium tariffs that were levied upon all imports earlier this year, saying that they are now suffering from the measure enacted specifically for their benefit. The firm filed a quintet of requests for waivers with the […]
Alcoa Turns In 38% Increase In Adjusted EBITDA In Q2 2018
Iconic Pittsburgh aluminium smelter Alcoa Corporation released results for the second quarter on Wednesday. Numbers were up across the board thanks in part to strong pricing for both alumina and aluminium. Alcoa’s revenue in the second quarter totaled US$3,579 million, up from both last quarter’s total of US$3,090 million and last year’s second-quarter total of […]
Contract Talks to Resume At Québec Aluminium Smelter ABI
Alcoa Corp will soon resume negotiations with the union labor force currently on strike at Québec’s Aluminerie de Bécancour Inc. (ABI). The plant’s management made known its readiness to again take up labor talks with the provincial labor ministry late last week. The ABI plant, which boasts a primary aluminium production capacity of around 430 […]
The Net-Zero Shift Starts With Low Carbon Aluminium
2020 was supposed to be “year of climate action”, with the Glasgow COP26 acting as a major milestone for both businesses and policymakers to accelerate decarbonization efforts. However, with COVID-19 disrupting lives and economies in an unprecedented manner, countries across the globe ...
Aluminium at the LME Week – Key Takeaways
Between October 28 and November 1st, London hosted the traditional London Metals Exchange (LME) Week gathering of analysts, brokers, traders ...
Aluminium Market Oversupplied, Demand Growth Flat
Base metals prices reacted positively to the progress registered in the latest round of US – China trade talks in ...
Aluminium of Greece (AOG): is the Pechiney spirit still alive?
Between September 24-25, FastmarketsMB organized its annual aluminium conference in Athens. A day before the conference, in accordance with an ...
