Remembering Fred Fetterolf

 

With sadness we announce the death of retired Alcoa President and Chief Operating Officer, C. Fred Fetterolf on February 5, 2012, at age 83. 


Fetterolf had a distinguished 39-year career with Alcoa. He served as President of Alcoa from 1983 until his retirement in 1991, adding the duties of Chief Operating Officer in 1985. He is credited with helping to breathe life into the code of conduct that became the Alcoa Values.

      
 Fetterolf joined Alcoa in 1952 as a sales trainee in Pittsburgh after earning a bachelor's degree in chemistry from Grove City College (Pennsylvania). He went on to hold a variety of sales and marketing roles in the chemicals, defense and mill product operations, and was elected a vice president in 1977. In the late 1970s and early 1980s, Fetterolf held leadership positions in primary products operation, science and technology, and mill products.

 

Fetterolf was born in Franklin, Pennsylvania and served in the U.S. Navy. He is survived by his wife Fran Spang Fetterolf.



Alcoa Leads Metals Sector in Fortune 500 Ranking; Moves Up in Overall Ranking

Alcoa led the Metals category of nine companies in the 2012 Fortune 500 ranking of the largest U.S. companies. It also rose to 115, up from 123 last year in the overall ranking of the largest corporations based on such metrics as revenues, profits and market value.

 

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Alcoa Breaks Ground for $90 million Aluminum Lithium Cast House in Lafayette

Alcoa broke ground for its greenfield state-of-the-art aluminum lithium facility in Lafayette, Indiana, on May 17 at an event attended by Lafayette-area employees, and community and state partners. Adjacent to its existing plant, the $90 million, 115,000-square-foot expansion will produce more than 20,000 metric tons of aluminum lithium and be capable of casting round and rectangular ingots for rolled, extruded and forged applications.

 

Introduced last year by Alcoa, newly patented aluminum lithium alloys will allow airframers to build dramatically lighter and lower-cost airplanes than can be built with composites. The alloys also provide the best strength-to-weight performance in Alcoa's aerospace alloy portfolio, as well as better stiffness and corrosion resistance. The alloys are used in extrusions, forgings, and sheet and plate applications across aircraft structures, including airplane wings and fuselage elements.


 

Driving Sustainability

Debuting a fresh, streamlined design, improved navigation, and six new videos of production processes, Alcoa’s 2011 Sustainability Report provides a transparent and balanced looked at the company’s ongoing efforts to drive sustainability throughout its operations.

 

Highlights of Alcoa’s 2011 sustainability performance include:

  • The introduction of Reynobond® with EcoClean™, the first coil-coated architectural panel that helps clean itself and the air around it;
  • A reduction in the total carbon dioxide intensity in the Global Primary Products business by 23% and global freshwater-use intensity by 21% between 2005 and 2011, exceeding the 2020 targets and allowing the company to bring its 2030 goals forward to 2020; and
  • Inclusion in the Dow Jones Sustainability Index for the tenth consecutive time.

Access the full online report

 

 


 


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