Alcoa Cuts More Aluminum Output in Quebec
- Becancour dealing with union lockout, effects of U.S. tariffs
- U.S. company curtailing additional 69,000 tons at Canada plant
A group of locked-out workers outside the Alcoa-owned aluminum plant in Becancour, Quebec.
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Alcoa Corp. will further curtail production at a Canadian smelter as the biggest U.S. aluminum producer faces a shortage of workers amid a dispute with unionized workers and the impact of U.S. tariffs on shipments of the metal.
The Pittsburgh-based company said it will curtail half of the one operating potline’s 138,000 metric ton capacity at its majority-owned Aluminerie de Bécancour Inc. smelter in Quebec. Alcoa attributed the cut to recent departures and retirements of salaried employees, who were already working extra shifts since the producer locked out more than 1,000 union employees on Jan. 11.