Alcoa Sells Warrick Aluminium Rolling Mill To Kaiser For US$670 Million
Pittsburgh’s aluminium pioneer Alcoa Corp announced this week that it has agreed to sell its rolling mill business to California’s...
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Kaiser Aluminum Returning To Pre-Pandemic Business With Q1’s Total Shipments Of 137 MM Pounds
California semi-fabricated specialty aluminium producer Kaiser Aluminum announced results for the first quarter of the year yesterday. Totals were generally ahead of the fourth quarter but down from last year’s first quarter as the firm sees a return to pre-COVID-19 trends. In...
United Steelworkers Accepts New Four-Year Labor Contract With Alcoa
Pittsburgh aluminium pioneer Alcoa Corporation and United Steelworkers (USW) said late last week that USW’s membership at Alcoa’s facilities voted...
Alcoa And United Steelworkers Reach Tentative Agreement On New Labor Contract
Pittsburgh aluminium pioneer Alcoa Corporation announced a tentative accord with United Steelworkers over a four-year labor contract covering about 1,700...
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Alcoa, USW Agree To Continue Under Prior Agreement As Negotiations On New Accord Continue
American aluminium pioneer Alcoa Corporation said Thursday it has reached an agreemet with United Steelworkers to continue working under the labor contract now in place until a new contract can be negotiated. Per Alcoa, the 1,700 employees covered under the contract are located at 5 plants in the United States, specifically Indiana’s Warrick Operations, New […]
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 took steps to resume production for the first time in almost two years. Company spokesperson Jim Beck told local media on Wednesday that one of the plant’s three idled potlines was recently re-energized, which is […]
Alcoa Announces Immediate Restart of Three Potlines at Warrick Smelter
American aluminium giant Alcoa Corporation announced on Tuesday that it plans to restart a trio of the five idled potlines at its Evansville, Indiana smelter. The three potlines to be restarted at the Warrick smelter feature a combined capacity of 161,400 metric tons per annum. Idled in the spring of 2016, the process to restart […]
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 ...
