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Alumina Limited is an Australian holding company. Spun off from Western Mining Corporation in 2002, its sole asset is a 40% shareholding in Alcoa World Alumina & Chemicals. In 2024, Alcoa acquired Alumina for US$2.2 billion.
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 ] [ 3 ] Alcoa conducts operations in 10 countries.
Alcoa Inc. announced a hostile take over bid for its progeny on 7 May 2007, in a deal worth US$27 billion. The combined companies would have formed the largest aluminum producer in the world. On 22 May 2007, Alcan's board of directors unanimously recommended that shareholders reject Alcoa's unsolicited offer to acquire Alcan.
Alcoa , the largest producer of aluminum in the U.S., was once a bellwether with a $40 billion market capitalization whose quarterly performance gave us a real sense of economic conditions at home ...
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State-of-the-Art Alcoa Facility to Cut in Half Energy Used to Recycle Aluminum for Forged Wheels New Plant Expected to Recycle 100 Million Pounds of Aluminum Each Year CLEVELAND--(BUSINESS WIRE ...
Alcoa World Alumina and Chemicals (AWAC) is a subsiduaty of Alcoa. AWAC's business is the mining of bauxite , [ 1 ] the extraction of alumina ( aluminium oxide ) and the smelting of aluminium. It has about 25% of the global alumina market.
High Rock Lake, at 15,180 acres (6,140 ha), was the largest lake on the Yadkin at that time. In 1929, the company's name was changed to Alcoa. In 1962, Alcoa built the Tuckertown Dam between High Rock and Narrows Reservoirs. [4] In August 2002, Alcoa temporarily suspended aluminum production at the Badin Works, laying off 377 workers. [6]