Iceland Resumes Alcoa Talks on Smelter, Vidskiptabladid Says

(Bloomberg)--Iceland’s government has resumed talks with Alcoa Inc. on building an aluminum smelter in the north of the island, Vidskiptabladid reported, without saying how it obtained the information.

John Thuestad, Alcoa’s president of global production, and Marcos Ramos, the company’s president of global primary products in Europe, met with Industry Minister Katrin Juliusdottir last week to discuss the project, the Reykjavik-based newspaper said.