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Alcoa World Alumina and Chemicals (AWAC) is a subsiduaty of Alcoa. AWAC's business is the mining of bauxite , [ 1 ] the extraction of alumina ( aluminium oxide ) and the smelting of aluminium. It has about 25% of the global alumina market.
Alcoa had a smelting plant in Badin, North Carolina from 1917 to 2007 and continued a hydroelectric power operation there until February 1, 2017, when the Yadkin Hydroelectric Project was sold to Cube Hydro. [66] Alcoa also operates an aluminum smelting plant of similar size to the one in Tennessee in Warrick County, Indiana, just east of Newburgh.
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Alumina's only business activity is as the owner of a 40% share in Alcoa World Alumina & Chemicals (AWAC), a joint venture with Alcoa. AWAC owns two bauxite mines and three refineries (to extract aluminium oxide from bauxite) in Western Australia and owns a smelter (to extract pure aluminium) and has a 55% interest in the Portland aluminium ...
Australia is the world's largest bauxite producer, producing almost a third of global bauxite. [2] Bauxite is mined in Australia using open-cut mining, which suits the relatively shallow bauxite deposits located mostly in Western Australia and Queensland. [2] [4] Mined bauxite is either exported or refined domestically into alumina.
Alcoa manages the smelter operations. The smelter was commissioned between 1986 and 1988. It consists of two potlines of Alcoa A817 reduction cells, operating at a line current of over 310kA. [3] Portland is the only smelter using this technology. [4] Alumina is delivered bi-weekly from Western Australia via a ship known as "The Portland". From ...
Wagerup Power Station is a 380MW dual natural gas and distillate fuelled power station located at Alcoa’s Wagerup refinery in south-west Western Australia. [1] Located about 130 km south of Perth, on the border of Western Australia’s Peel and South West regions, the Power Station is four kilometres north of Yarloop and 13 km south of Waroona.