Alcoa Announced the Suspension of One Production Line at Warrick Aluminium Smelter

SHANGHAI, Jul 4 (SMM) - Alcoa announced a few days ago that it will begin the process to immediately curtail one of three operating smelting lines at its Warrick facility in Indiana due to operational challenges. Each of the three smelting lines at Warrick has an annual capacity of approximately 54,000 mt. “Our teams will be focused on ensuring that we bring down this capacity safely while protecting production at the two other operating lines,” said John Slaven, Executive Vice President and Chief Operations Officer.

Alcoa is a global industry leader in bauxite, alumina and aluminium products. According to statistics, Alcoa’s aluminium production capacity totals about 2.09 million mt, accounting for about 3% of the global total. Alcoa also has two alumina projects in Brazil and Spain, with a combined capacity of about 1.89 million mt, but only 1% of the world's nearly 170 million mt of alumina capacity.