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Oversupply forces Alcoa to cut 390,000 tonnes of annual alumina production

Michael Allan McCrae | April 05, 2012 | 3:56 pm Base Metals Europe Aluminum 

Due to an oversupply in the Atlantic region, the world's third-largest producer of aluminum, Alcoa, announced that it was cutting 390,000 tonnes of production of alumina. “Alcoa is taking these steps to avoid aggravating alumina oversupply in the Atlantic region...

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