{"id":2076,"date":"2023-03-16T09:17:48","date_gmt":"2023-03-16T00:17:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ctiweb.co.jp\/con\/en\/?p=2076"},"modified":"2023-03-16T09:17:48","modified_gmt":"2023-03-16T00:17:48","slug":"portland-aluminium-joint-venture-in-australia-to-reduce-production","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ctiweb.co.jp\/con\/en\/portland-aluminium-joint-venture-in-australia-to-reduce-production","title":{"rendered":"Portland Aluminium joint venture in Australia to reduce production"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>PITTSBURGH--(BUSINESS WIRE)--\u00a0On March, 16th, <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.alcoa.com\/global\/en\/home\/\">Alcoa Corporation<\/a><\/strong> announced that the Portland Aluminium smelter in the state of Victoria in Australia will begin to immediately reduce its overall production due to operational instability.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Production at the smelter will be reduced to approximately 75 percent of the site\u2019s total consolidated capacity of 358,000 metric tons per year (mtpy). Alcoa\u2019s share of the total capacity is 197,000 mtpy. The smelter, which has a total of 408 pots, had previously been operating at about 95 percent of its total capacity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The smelter has recently faced instability and challenges related to the production of rodded anodes, which are necessary to convey electricity into the smelting pots.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cOur teams are focused on safely taking the production offline and working to restore stability across the facility,\u201d said Bill Oplinger, Executive Vice President and Chief Operations Officer. \u201cCompleting this task in a controlled fashion is our priority as we work to improve operations.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Portland Aluminium is an unincorporated joint venture taking in Alcoa of Australia Limited (55 percent), CITIC Nominees Pty Ltd (22.5 percent), and Marubeni Aluminium Australia Pty Ltd (22.5 percent). Alcoa of Australia Limited is owned by Alcoa Corporation (60 percent) and Alumina Limited (40 percent).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PITTSBURGH--(BUSINESS WIRE)--\u00a0On March, 16th, Alcoa Corporation announced that the Portland Aluminium smelter in the state of Victoria in Australia will begin to immediately reduce its overall production due to operational instability. Production at the smelter will be reduced to approximately 75 percent of the site\u2019s total consolidated capacity of 358,000 metric tons per year (mtpy). Alcoa\u2019s share of the total capacity is 197,000 mtpy. The smelter, which has a total of 408 pots, had previously been operating at about 95 percent of its total capacity. The smelter has recently faced instability and challenges related to the production of rodded anodes, which are necessary to convey electricity into the smelting pots. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ctiweb.co.jp\/con\/en\/portland-aluminium-joint-venture-in-australia-to-reduce-production\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> \"Portland Aluminium joint venture in Australia to reduce production\"<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[10],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ctiweb.co.jp\/con\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2076"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ctiweb.co.jp\/con\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ctiweb.co.jp\/con\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ctiweb.co.jp\/con\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ctiweb.co.jp\/con\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2076"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ctiweb.co.jp\/con\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2076\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2077,"href":"https:\/\/ctiweb.co.jp\/con\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2076\/revisions\/2077"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ctiweb.co.jp\/con\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2076"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ctiweb.co.jp\/con\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2076"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ctiweb.co.jp\/con\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2076"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}