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Alcoa is a major producer of primary aluminum, fabricated aluminum, and alumina combined, through its active and growing participation in all major aspects of the industry: technology, mining, refining, smelting, fabricating, and recycling.
March 15, 2023 - Production at the smelter will be reduced to approximately 75 percent of the site’s total consolidated capacity of 358,000 metric tons per year (mtpy). Alcoa’s share of the total capacity is 197,000 mtpy. The smelter, which has a total of 408 pots, had previously been operating at about 95 percent of its total capacity.
Alcoa World Alumina and Chemicals is a owned 100% by Alcoa Corp. and is abbreviated to AWAC. 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. Alcoa acts as the day-to-day manager.
Here’s a timeline of what happened with the Alcoa Intalco Works facility west of Ferndale.
In a case similar to that of Century Aluminum, Alcoa’s Intalco smelter in Ferndale, Washington, emitted nearly 50 tons of PFCs in 2020 before the company temporarily shut down production that ...
Alcoa to Close Fusina Smelter in Italy NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Alcoa (NYS: AA) announced today that it intends to permanently close its Fusina (Venice, Italy) primary aluminum smelter, which ...
Alcoa manages the smelter operations. The smelter was commissioned between 1986 and 1988. It consists of two potlines of Alcoa A817 reduction cells, operating at a line current of over 310kA. [3] Portland is the only smelter using this technology. [4] Alumina is delivered bi-weekly from Western Australia via a ship known as "The Portland". From ...
Alcoa will soon be one asset lighter in Europe. The company announced that it is to shutter its Fusina smelter in Italy. This is not a sudden move; activity at the facility was curtailed in June 2010.