Alcoa Curtails Production at ABI Facility During Strike.PITTSBURGH Pittsburgh (pĭts`bərg), city (1990 pop. 369,879), seat of Allegheny co., SW Pa., at the confluence of the Allegheny and the Monongahela rivers, which there form the Ohio River; inc. 1816. -- Alcoa Alcoa U.S. company, the world's largest producer of aluminum. Established in Pittsburgh, Pa., in 1888, it adopted the name Aluminum Co. of America in 1907. Alcoa introduced aluminum foil in 1910 and found uses for aluminum in the emerging aviation and automobile industries. today said it would take the next step in its plan to operate the Becancour aluminum smelter in Quebec Quebec, city, Canada Quebec, Fr. Québec, city (1991 pop. 167,517), provincial capital, S Que., Canada, at the confluence of the St. Lawrence and St. Charles rivers. where the employees represented by the Syndicat des Employees de l'Aluminerie de Becancour have been on strike since July 7th. The company will cut production from two potlines to one over the next three days, reducing production at the facility by an additional 11,000 tonnes per month, to approximately 135,000 metric tonnes per year ("mtpy.") ABI's overall capacity is 400,000 mtpy. It is one of 27 smelters within the Alcoa global smelting smelting, in metallurgy, any process of melting or fusion, especially to extract a metal from its ore. Smelting processes vary in detail depending on the nature of the ore and the metal involved, but they are typified in the use of the blast furnace. system, which has a worldwide capacity of approximately 4 million metric tons per year. Alcoa is working to minimize the impact that this reduced production will have on customers. www.alcoa.com |
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