Alcoa Strengthens Its China Business

Alcoa, with world headquarters in Pittsburgh, has announced that effective July 1, 20911, its Asia-Pacific regional headquarters will report to Alcoa’s Business Excellence and Corporate Strategy organization, part of an initiative to support Alcoa’s expanding footprint in the Chinese market. The new structure is designed to maximize corporate support for the expansion of all three Alcoa business groups.

As part of this initiative, Jinya Chen, Asia-Pacific Regional president, was elected an Alcoa vice president. Chen will report to Kay Meggers, vice president, Corporate Initiatives. He will have overall accountability for Alcoa’s China strategy.

Alcoa also announced that Jiming Zhu will join the company as president, China Rolled Products. He will be responsible for managing all of Alcoa’s Global Rolled Products (GRP) operations in China. He will succeed Mark Vrablec, who was named vice president, GRP Technology and Engineering.

“We expect Jinya and Jiming to be an unbeatable Alcoa team in China,” says Klaus Kleinfeld, Alcoa’s chairman and CEO. “Jinya helped build Alcoa’s strong foundation in China, and now he also will be responsible for developing and driving all aspects of our China strategy as Alcoa expands in one of our most vital markets.

“Jiming will lead the operations and growth of our largest business in China, building on our solid market presence. Expanding our reach to customers in China’s automotive, packaging and consumer electronics markets, our rolled products business is targeting to grow three times faster than the market in the next three years.”