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Alcoa Corporation (an acronym for "Aluminum Company of America") is an American industrial corporation. It is the world's eighth-largest producer of aluminum. [2] ...
Alfred Ephraim Hunt (1855-1899) was a 19th-century American metallurgist and industrialist best known for founding the company that would eventually become Alcoa, the world's largest producer and distributor of aluminum.
Charles Martin Hall was born to Herman Bassett Hall and Sophronia H. Brooks on December 6, 1863, in Thompson, Ohio. [2] Charles's father, Herman, graduated from Oberlin College in 1847, and studied for three years at the Oberlin Theological Seminary, where he met his future wife, Sophronia Brooks.
Arthur Vining Davis was born in Sharon, Massachusetts, the son of Perley B. Davis, a Congregational minister, and Mary Frances. After attending school in Hyde Park, Massachusetts, and the Roxbury Latin School in Boston, Davis entered Amherst College, graduating in 1888 three years after his friend Calvin Coolidge.
The company was acquired by Alcoa on May 3, 2000, to become the largest aluminum company in the United States. [1] [2] On January 21, 2008, Alcoa sold its consumer unit to Rank Group Ltd. Rank's owner, New Zealand billionaire Graeme Hart, renamed Alcoa's former unit the Reynolds Packaging Group. Hart merged his other packaging companies into ...
NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Alcoa (NYS: AA) announced today that John Martin, 48, has been named President of Alcoa Global Primary Products - United States (GPP-US). In this role, Mr. Martin ...
On 1 November 2016, Alcoa fully separated its raw aluminum operation from business units that supply the aerospace and automotive markets. [ 49 ] [ 50 ] The spin-off retained is a newly created company Alcoa Corp. Kleinfeld remained as Arconic's chairman and CEO following the split.
Robert Wilt has been named President of Alcoa's Global Primary Products (GPP) business, succeeding Chris Ayers who is leaving the company. Wilt had been Chief Operating Officer for the GPP business.