Alcoa Nixes Offer For Binding Arbitration At Aluminerie de Bécancour As 13-Month Lockout Continues
After over a year of on-and-off negotiations between management and labor at Aluminerie de Bécancour, Alcoa Corporation opted to decline...
Jim Beck
Rusal Parent Company Says Report Of Bans On Russian Aluminium “Irresponsible”
En+ Group took the offensive against media reports suggesting that the United States government is considering sanctions on Russian aluminium and other materials this week, asserting that it has been fully compliant with US import regulations. UC Rusal’s parent company spoke through...
Alcoa Re-Energizes Trio of Aluminium Potlines At Idled Warrick Plant
Southwest Indiana’s Christmas became a little merrier when Alcoa Corp. announced this week that the aluminium smelter in Warrick County...
Strike Looms as Workers at Québec Aluminium Smelter Consider New Labor Deal
Workers at a plant jointly owned by Alcoa and Rio Tinto in Québec are in the process of deciding whether...
Events
Despite Unfathomable Destruction, Harvey to Cause Minimal Interruptions to Aluminium Industry
The once-in-a-millenium storm that is Hurricane/Tropical Storm Harvey will likely have a limited impact upon aluminium facilities located on the Gulf Coast. According to reporting by Platts, Alcoa closed a petroleum coke calciner located in Lake Charles, Louisiana. Alcoa spokesman Jim Beck indicated that the newly-restarted plant was idled due to a storm-related power disruption. […]
Alcoa Says Reopening Alumina Refinery at Port Comfort Must Wait
Despite reopening operations at its plant in Evansville, Indiana, representatives for Alcoa Corporation informed local media in Texas that the plant at Point Comfort is likely to remain idle for the foreseeable future. Company spokesman Jim Beck was quoted in the Victoria Advocate as saying that, though the firm regularly reevaluates the economic arguments for […]
Biden Infrastructure Bill A Big Boon To Aluminium Industry: Norsk Hydro VP Mike Stier
Earlier this month the United States Congress passed into law President Joe Biden’s US$1.2 trillion infrastructure package. The Investing in a New Vision for the Environment and Surface Transportation in America Act (or the INVEST in America Act) will allocate US$550 billion ...
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 ...
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 ...
