Aluminum: Alcoa’s JV in Australia will reduce production

Pittsburgh-based Alcoa Corp. announced that the Portland Aluminium smelter in Victoria state, Australia, has begun to reduce overall production in light of operational instability. Production at the smelter will be reduced to about 75 percent of the site's total consolidated capacity of 358,000 metric tons per year. Recently, the smelter has faced instability and problems […]