Alcoa lays off turbine products workers

Dec 04, 2009 | 10:59 AM | Frank Haflich

More than 20 percent of the work force at Alcoa Inc.'s Hampton, Va., aircraft and industrial products operation have been laid off.

The unit of Alcoa's Power and Propulsion Group cut employment by 250 due to a "downturn in the market," according to an Alcoa spokesman in Pittsburgh, noting that orders in the....





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