NEWSBREAK: Alcoa to curtail additional capacity at Aluminerie de Becancour smelter

December 20, 2018 / www.metalbulletin.com / Article Link

Alcoa will start to curtail half of the one operating potline at its Aluminierie de Becancour Inc (ABI) smelter in Quebec, Canada, it said on Wednesday December 19.

The smelter has a nameplate capacity of 413,000 tonnes per year across its three potlines. Alcoa owns 74.95% of the Becancour smelter while Rio Tinto owns the remaining...

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