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Kaiser Aluminum Scales Down Production During Plant Reconstruction

HOUSTON-Kaiser Aluminum is in the midst of rebuilding and upgrading a Louisiana facility that sustained extensive damage in a 1999 explosion. Reconstruction costs are setting the Houston-based corporation back $275 million.

By Jack Burney | Updated on December 20, 2000

HOUSTON-Kaiser Aluminum Corp.’s alumina refinery at Gramercy, LA is back in business on a limited scale while still rebuilding.

A July 1999 explosion had disabled the plant’s digestion area owned by Houston-based Kaiser Aluminum. The facility’s annual capacity prior to the explosion was 1.070 million metric tons. The local management hopes to gradually boost alumina production to 75% of its post-construction capacity of 1.250 million metric tons. Production in 2000 will probably total 40,000 or so metric tons.

Construction of the final phase of the digestion unit is expected to be completed in March 2001. Virtually all of Gramercy’s expected production is covered by sales contracts for the next several years.

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