Alcoa announced it plans to re-start the partial production it idled at its two Massena, NY smelters. The company idled the smelters in April 2003. The re-start, which will begin this week and is expected to take about three months to complete, is expected to generate 10,000 metric tons of aluminum this year. Upon completion, the two smelters will be operating at capacity.
"Various market conditions -- including favorable short-term power availability and strong demand for premium products -- warrant our taking steps to re-start the 24 percent of production that we idled last year," said Alan Cransberg, Alcoa's president of U.S. Primary Metals.
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