Alcoa to resume its Warrick smelting operations this summer

Alcoa Corporation, the world’s sixth largest aluminium producer with headquarter in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, has started working towards resuming its south-west Indiana smelter by this summer and already hiring workers for it.

The Pittsburgh-based company had announced the permanent shut at its Warrick operations smelter at the end of March 2016 on becoming incompetent after a drop in aluminium prices. 325 workers out of total 600 were laid off, while the rest either found new jobs or accepted severance or retirement packages.

As Alcoa confirmed last year, the company would reopen three of its five smelter lines and contribute to about 275 new jobs at the complex, where rolling mill makes aluminium for food and beverage packaging.

Kari Fluegel, Alcoa’s spokeswoman has reported to the Evansville Courier & Press, saying that the company has completed initial hiring for restarting the operation and recalled all its former employees who wanted to re-join the smelter along the Ohio River in Newburgh, southeast of Evansville.

She also said that the work towards recommencing the smelter is towards an end and should expectantly start operating this summer.