Alcoa World Alumina and Chemicals is a joint venture between
Alumina Limited
Alumina Limited is an Australian holding company. Spun off from Western Mining Corporation in 2002, its sole asset is a 40% shareholding in Alcoa World Alumina & Chemicals.
History
Alumina was founded in December 2002 when Western Mining Corpo ...
(40% share) and
Alcoa
Alcoa Corporation (an acronym for Aluminum Company of America) is a Pittsburgh-based industrial corporation. It is the world's eighth-largest producer of aluminum. Alcoa conducts operations in 10 countries. Alcoa is a major producer of primary ...
(60% share) and is abbreviated to AWAC. AWAC's business is the mining of
bauxite, the extraction of alumina (
aluminium oxide) and the smelting of aluminium. It has about 25% of the global alumina market. Alcoa acts as the day-to-day manager.
Australian operations
Alcoa has two
smelters in Victoria, located at
Portland
Portland most commonly refers to:
* Portland, Oregon, the largest city in the state of Oregon, in the Pacific Northwest region of the United States
* Portland, Maine, the largest city in the state of Maine, in the New England region of the northeas ...
and
Point Henry
Moolap is a residential and industrial suburb of Geelong, Victoria, Australia. The name Moolap is derived from an Aboriginal word for nearby Point Henry, moo-laa, thought to mean 'men gathering to go fishing'.
Moolap is located in the City of ...
in
Victoria. It has three
alumina refineries in
Western Australia, located at
Kwinana Beach,
Pinjarra and
Wagerup, and two
bauxite mines at Huntly and Willowdale, also in Western Australia.
Portland smelter
The Portland smelter produces about 360,000 tonnes of aluminium a year, and is Victoria's largest single exporter.
Point Henry smelter
The Point Henry smelter commenced full production on April 4, 1963. It has a production capacity of 185,000 tonnes of aluminium a year. March 20, 1969, saw Alcoa's own
brown coal-fired
Anglesea Power Station
The Anglesea Power Station was a brown coalpowered thermal power station located at Anglesea, in Victoria, Australia. The station had one steam turbine, with a capacity of . It was operated by Alcoa of Australia and supplied almost 40% of the ...
brought on line at augment the electricity supply from the Victorian grid.
[''R. Arklay and I. Sayer'' – 'Geelong's Electric Supply' – September 1970]
The Point Henry smelter closed in 2014.
Other operations
AWAC has other operations in Brazil, Guinea, Jamaica, Suriname, Spain, and the USA
See also
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Alumina
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Aluminium smelting
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Alcoa
Alcoa Corporation (an acronym for Aluminum Company of America) is a Pittsburgh-based industrial corporation. It is the world's eighth-largest producer of aluminum. Alcoa conducts operations in 10 countries. Alcoa is a major producer of primary ...
*
Alumina Limited
Alumina Limited is an Australian holding company. Spun off from Western Mining Corporation in 2002, its sole asset is a 40% shareholding in Alcoa World Alumina & Chemicals.
History
Alumina was founded in December 2002 when Western Mining Corpo ...
*
Australian Aluminium Council The Australian Aluminium Council is an Australian industry association representing companies involved in bauxite mining and the refining, production and distribution of aluminium.
Miles Prosser has been the Executive Director of the Australian A ...
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List of Alumina Refineries
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List of aluminium smelters
AWAC webpage
References
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Aluminium smelters
Aluminium companies of Australia
Alcoa
Joint ventures
Manufacturing companies of Australia