Alcoa idles one of the three potlines at Warrick aluminium smelter in Indiana

On 1^st July 2022, the Pittsburgh-headquartered American Industrial Corporation due to operational challenges at Warrick aluminium smelter, Alcoa announced it is curtailing one of three potlines immediately.

There are three smelting lines at Warrick, each capable of producing approximately 54,000 tonnes per year. By the end of 1st July, one potline was shut down completely.

John Slaven, the Executive Vice President and COO at Alcoa said, “Our teams will be focused on ensuring that we bring down this capacity safely while protecting production at the two other operating lines.”

Alcoa in its 2020 sustainability report, which covered the activity of the previous year, exemplified  “an ongoing focus on increasing the recycled content in the flat-rolled aluminium produced at our Warrick Operations.”

In 2019, Alcoa was able to make its aluminium using 34.5 per cent recycled content in the United States, compared with 30.4 per cent in 2018.

The Company further added, “We again anticipate increasing this amount due to equipment upgrades and other initiatives that will continue through 2020.”