Overview Of Alcoa Intalco Aluminum

Overview Of Alcoa Intalco Aluminum

Milestone 1: Overview of Alcoa Intalco Aluminum Works

This short paper will discuss a general overview of Alcoa Intalco Aluminum Works with different aspects of the business in pertaining to either a preparation for a new product launch or new method created specifically in the hope of reducing costs that will save the company, not just money but the jobs of hundreds of employees currently employed there.

Brief History

Intalco Aluminum Corp., was the original name of Alcoa Intalco Works, which is an aluminum refinery that is located in Ferndale, WA. It began smelter operation back in 1966 and owned primarily by Alumax, Pechiney and Howmet. Most of it employees were and are union workers. In 1998, Alcoa Inc. and Alumax merged which created ... Show more content on Helpwriting.net ...Alcoa created its aluminum using a process called Hall–Herould through electrolysis since aluminum is highly reactive, as I have mentioned before, and for this requires a high amount of energy. A single aluminum plant uses as much electricity as the city of Tacoma. The company is spending millions of dollars researching ways to use less power. It, however, still takes an average of 16,232 kilowatt hours to turn out a ton of aluminum, if we are to compare to another product, for instance steel would only need 77 for a ton. However, there is a reason to why Alcoa Intalco Works stays purely with aluminum as Isaac Bonell, a writer for The Bellingham Business Journal pointed out that "Aluminum is needed to build infrastructure, to manufacture cars and airplanes, to make high–tech medical equipment and to package your favorite chilled beverage. In the smelting industry, there is no shortage of customers." Last year, on August 2016, the facility celebrated its 50th birthday in operation which was bittersweet because they were discussing shutting down some of their potlines again which mean layoff of over 400 employees as well. Unfortunately, energy crisis was not the only problem here but had to do with the global market prices of aluminum which makes Intalco unprofitable.

Mission/Business: Aluminum

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