Kevin Kramer, President – Alcoa Growth and Market Strategy, participated in a panel discussion at the Corporate Eco-Forum’s Annual Meeting on “Sustainability: The New Growth Engine” with a number of other leading companies. “The opportunity to participate in the Eco Forum was a new one for Alcoa and one we initiated because we saw it as a good opportunity to share with key stakeholders and thought leaders in this space on how we and our favorite metal can be a big part of the solution to the challenges facing our customers and the world,” said Kramer. “We need to do more…a lot more. But we’ve just begun.”
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Former Senior PCC Executive And Current Alcoa Leader Describes Alcoa’s Technology Advantage
Chris Ayers, a former senior executive at Precision Cast Parts (PCC), joined Alcoa as a chief operating officer of the Engineered Products and Solutions (EPS) business. During the Farnborough Air Show, Chris discussed the Alcoa technology advantage with Dan Goodman, Alcoa’s aerospace marketing director.
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President of Alcoa Forgings and Extrusions Describes Content on A380 and 787
During a conversation with Dan Goodman, Alcoa’s aerospace marketing director, Eric Roegner, the president of Alcoa Forgings and Extrusions, described his business unit’s content on the Airbus A380 and the Boeing 787, which both participated in the show’s flying demonstrations.
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Joint Strike Fighter: Alcoa's Greatest Defense Aero Success Story
Fred Latrash, vice president of business development for Alcoa Defense, talked about the Alcoa content on the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter (JSF). He mentions the world’s largest titanium aerospace forgings to reduce weight and lower cost, along with Alcoa’s monolithic bulkheads for A, B and C variants, which are forged in aluminum and titanium, are up to 17’ long.
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Worldwide Leadership in Metallic Helicopter Components
Alcoa is the lead supplier of aluminum content for all helicopters – both military and commercial – worldwide. Fred Latrash, vice president of business development for Alcoa Defense, reviewed the Alcoa content on a MH-60 Romeo helicopter while at the Farnborough Air Show.
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Upgrading Military Legacy Fleet Platforms With New Alloys
Alcoa Defense has been working with the U.S. Air Force to help improve the performance of its legacy fleet by upgrading older aluminum components with new, improved alloys that reduce maintenance and weight. Fred Latrash, vice president of business development for Alcoa Defense, shared how Alcoa is collaborating with the military to upgrade the F-15 Strike Eagle.
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How Aluminum Castings Improve Quality While Reducing Weight and Cost for Electronic Equipment Enclosures
Aluminum investment castings significantly reduce the weight and cost of enclosures for electronic equipment when they replace multi-piece fabrications. Fred Latrash, vice president of business development for Alcoa Defense, described how we are supplying investment castings for electro-optic devices.
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Alcoa Fasteners Enable The Boeing 787 To Take Flight
The Boeing 787 Dreamliner took to the skies at the Farnborough Air Show. Craig Brown, vice president of global aerospace customers and marketing for Alcoa Fastening Systems, discussed the fastening technologies that make the 787 possible.
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Alcoa Deepens Its Relationship With COMAC On The C919
Harry Kiskaddon, global commercial director, Alcoa Rolled Products, describes Alcoa’s ongoing relationship with COMAC. He mentions the partnership exploring new aluminum-lithium alloys, as well as advanced structural concepts.
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Wheel Torque Solutions
Alcoa Wheels, B&D Cold Heading, Chicago Pneumatic and ITW CIP have created an innovative, highly researched and developed wheel installation process that significantly reduces costly and dangerous wheel-off incidents.
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A Bright Future for Metallic Planes
Recently, Dan Goodman, Alcoa’s aerospace marketing director, shared Alcoa’s market outlook for aerospace at an American Metal Market conference in Pittsburgh, Pa. At Farnborough, he provided an update.
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Alloy Innovation: Next-Generation Aluminum-Lithium
Almost all aluminum aerospace alloys in use today were originally developed by Alcoa. Today, we are continuing to innovate and lead the industry in new alloy development. In particular, Alcoa is developing game-changing aluminum-lithium alloys that will dramatically improve aircraft performance.
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A Partner, Not A Supplier for the A380
The A380 took to the skies at the Farnborough Air Show yesterday with Alcoa products and solutions that set new standards in performance in advanced aerospace metallics and fastening systems.
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Communicating the sustainability benefits of Alcoa and aluminum to the marketplace
Kevin Kramer, President – Alcoa Growth and Market Strategy, participated in a panel discussion at the Corporate Eco-Forum’s Annual Meeting on “Sustainability: The New Growth Engine” with a number of other leading companies.
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Victorian power contracts: platform for the future
In March 2010 Alcoa of Australia and Loy Yang Power announced new base-load electricity contracts to power Alcoa’s smelter at Point Henry, Geelong, and the Portland Aluminium smelter to 2036.
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Discovering the Value of Recycling
Discovery Channel’s Green Magazine TV visits Alcoa Tennessee Operations’ (USA) recycling center to show the power of the world’s most recycled and recyclable beverage container.
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Earthwatch 2010
Sponsored by Alcoa, Alcoa Foundation and the Earthwatch Institute, this annual volunteer program sends Alcoans and Community Fellows from all over the world to support Earthwatch research in the field.
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Point Comfort Going Green!
Over 600 Alcoa employees, families and neighbors learned how to reduce their impact on the environment when Point Comfort opened its doors for the first time in 10 years holding a hugely successful Green Open House on Saturday March 6! Check out some of the highlights from the Point Comfort Make an Impact Launch!
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The “Can Do” Couple
Check out how a couple from Spokane, Washington is paying for their wedding by recycling aluminum cans.
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Alcoa Managing Director’s Family Makes an Impact
Make an Impact is a program that helps people reduce their household water and energy use and become part of the solution to climate change.
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Aluminum Can Recycling B Roll
Recycling aluminum cans has a number of significant environmental benefits including reducing litter, reducing landfill and reducing greenhouse gas emissions.
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2009 Month of Service in Australia
Every October is Alcoa’s annual ‘Worldwide Month of Service’ – a time when we encourage employee volunteerism and celebrate our volunteering heroes.
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Alcoa Wheels Featured on Big Truck TV
Aluminum: The Lighter Heavyweight.
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"Ultimate Factories: Lamborghini" Highlights Alcoa Wheels – entire show (one hour)
National Geographic Channel presented "Ultimate Factories: Lamborghini" in October 2009.
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"Ultimate Factories: Lamborghini" Highlights Alcoa Wheels – Alcoa portion (five minutes)
National Geographic Channel presented "Ultimate Factories: Lamborghini" in October 2009.
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Alcoa and COMAC Explore Leading Technology Solutions for C919, China’s Largest Passenger Aircraft
Alcoa and Commercial Aircraft Corporation of China Ltd. (COMAC) today announced they are jointly exploring leading technology solutions for the design and development of China’s new, large passenger jet, the C919.
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Critical: Gas security for Western Australia
Gas security for WA critical: Australia must get the balance right between expanding and maximising LNG exports while ensuring the country’s own domestic needs.
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Alcoa Tree Planting Weekend 2009
As Month of Service 2009 kicked off, Alcoa volunteers featured on national television. Channel 9’s Garden Gurus TV program attended our annual Tree Planting Weekend, where 50 Alcoa employees and their family members planted 25,000 seedlings in just two days.
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Make an Impact: part of the solution to climate change
Make an Impact is a program which helps Alcoa employees and the community reduce their household water and energy use and become part of the solution to climate change. To find out more visit www.alcoa.com.au/makeanimpact
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Alcoa Volunteers
Alcoans volunteer over 90,000 hours each year in communities in Australia. Hear from some of them about the benefits of volunteering.
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Alcoa rings the opening bell at the NYSE to celebrate 50 years on the Dow Jones Industrial Average
Alcoa President and CEO Klaus Kleinfeld rang the opening bell of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) on July 27, 2009, commemorating Alcoa’s 50 years as a component of the Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA).
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Alcoa Apprenticeships – kick start your career
At Alcoa, we invest around $22 million on training in Australia each year including $7.5 million on apprentices. We are committed to building skills in local communities and have trained more than 1500 tradespeople through our apprenticeship program. Our three and four year programs train people to become qualified in a particular trade, offering nationally recognised trade certificates on completion.
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Alcoa Howmet at the Paris Air Show
Olivier Dubois, European commercial director for Alcoa Howmet, a division of Alcoa Power and Propulsion, takes a few moments in the booth to explain his business unit’s casting capabilities.
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Alcoa Fastening Systems at the Paris Air Show
Craig Brown, VP Marketing & Customer, talks about three key areas where AFS is making an impact across both commercial and military aircraft markets.
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Alcoa & Greening Australia - River Recovery in the Peel region
Alcoa has been in partnership with Greening Australia for over 27 years. In 2005, we became the founding partner of Greening Australia’s ‘River Recovery’ program.
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Meg McDonald, Director of Alcoa Global Issues, testifies to the US House of Representatives about the American Clean Energy and Security Act
U.S. Climate Action Partnership (USCAP) and Alcoa are supportive of US comprehensive climate legislation which will address climate control and emission reductions as part of the American Clean Energy and Security Act. Meg McDonald presents the Alcoa view, May 2009.
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Alcoa Carriers: Watch us grow
North America Carriers fleets met with Alcoa personnel to recognize our top customers, and talk together about how aluminum can save money and add value to their businesses.
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Alcoa Dura-Bright® wheels on TruckU TV
See what TruckU TV (on SPEED Channel) has to say about easy-to-clean Dura-Bright® wheels from Alcoa. Mud, dirt and road grime just washes away.
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Alcoa Truck Wheels on TV
Trucks! TV reviews Alcoa’s forged aluminum aftermarket wheels available with Dura-Bright® technology.
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Our Future Women of Industry scholarship program
Each year, high school students from around our West Australian Operations are given the chance to take an up-close look at resources careers, as part of our Future Women of Industry (FWOI) scholarship program.
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2008 Month of Service in Australia
2,245 Alcoa employees in Australia took part in our 2008 Worldwide Month of Service – a 6% increase from 2007. Month of Service takes place in October each year and is a global program, devised by Alcoa, dedicating a whole month to celebrating and encouraging volunteering.
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Alcoa’s 2008 Worldwide Month of Service
One month, 699 service events, 22,000 employee volunteers...50,000 assisted! Watch the amazing impact Alcoans made in your region, during the biggest event on our volunteer calendar – Alcoa’s 2008 Worldwide Month of Service.
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Alcoa and Climate Change
Watch Managing Director Alan Cransberg and Sustainability Manager, Tim McAuliffe, explaining the climate change challenges to Alcoa employees
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Our ‘Make an Impact’
program on Channel 9
Alcoa of Australia and Greening Australia have joined together to form a program called "Make an Impact" to help Alcoa employees to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions. Learn more about the program through this video.
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Preserving Our Land
Alcoa Fastening Systems has worked closely with the Palos Verdes Peninsula Land Conservancy in California to improve and protect the natural open spaces on the 1400-acre Preserve.
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Alcoa’s Clontarf Foundation partnership features on Channel 10 News
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Vintage Alcoa TV commercial --- "Aluminum for the farmer"
Alcoa TV commercial from the early 50s on aluminum applications for farming.
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The aluminium production process on The Discovery Channel
The Discovery Channel visited Alcoa sites around the world to find out just that.
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'Curiosity Shop' -- The story of the Aluminum Research Laboratory
Watch this short video as a followup to 'Unfinished Rainbows'.
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It all started with Charles Martin Hall
Watch "Unifinished Rainbows," a short feature film from 1940 that tells the story of the founding of Alcoa and the aluminum industry.
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Our people reducing their greenhouse footprint
Alcoa employees in Australia are reducing their personal greenhouse footprint through a program called Make an Impact.
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Alcoa’s ‘River Recovery’ on Channel 9
Alcoa of Australia and Greening Australia are working together to protect Australia's rivers.
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Instituto Alcoa Movie (Portuguese)
The Alcoa Institute has the main goal of improving life conditions in the communities where the Company and its subsidiaries operate.
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Jay Leno's New EcoJet
Alcoa Teams With Jay Leno's Big Dog Garage and GM Advanced Design on Leno's New EcoJet - Jay Leno and GM Design VP Ed Welburn talk about how the concept came to life
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An overview of Alcoa in Australia
Alcoa operates the world's largest integrated bauxite mining, alumina refining and aluminium smelting system in Australia
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Alcoa's Gift to the National Gallery of Australia
Alcoa demonstrated its support for the arts when it donated a number of significant pieces of art to the National Gallery of Australia in 2005.
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Timehelp—Alcoa Team
The Timehelp program is an innovative community partnership that turns spare time into school resources and connects our younger generation with our seniors.
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