Alcoa World Alumina curtails alumina production.PITTSBURGH--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 7, 1996--Alcoa World Alumina alumina (əl  `mĭnə) or aluminum oxide, Al2O3, chemical compound with m.p. about 2,000°C; and sp. gr. about 4.0. and Chemicals (AWAC) announced today a 350,000-metric tonne (mt) curtailment in its annual production of smelter-grade alumina. The curtailment will be implemented immediately. AWAC also has 600,000 mt of idle alumina capacity at its refinery at St. Croix in the Virgin Islands, and expansions currently underway at Sao Luis São Lu·is A city of northeast Brazil on an offshore island in the Atlantic Ocean east-southeast of Belém. It was founded by the French in 1612 and named in honor of Louis XIII. Population: 910,000. , in Brazil, and Point Comfort, TX, will add another 500,000 mt of capacity to the AWAC system in the fall of this year. AWAC is owned 60 percent by Alcoa and 40 percent by WMC WMC Winter Music Conference WMC Weill Medical College (Cornell University) WMC Wisconsin Manufacturers and Commerce (Madison, WI) WMC Westchester Medical Center WMC Western Mining Corporation , Ltd. of Melbourne, Australia. AWAC is the world's largest producer of smelter-grade alumina, which is the raw material from which aluminum is made. In 1995, AWAC produced 10.6 million mt of alumina at refineries in Australia, Brazil, Jamaica, Suriname and the United States United States, officially United States of America, republic (2005 est. pop. 295,734,000), 3,539,227 sq mi (9,166,598 sq km), North America. The United States is the world's third largest country in population and the fourth largest country in area. . CONTACT: Alcoa, Pittsburgh A. T. Posti, 412/553-4465 |
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