Aluminum billet shipments delayed at Alcoa plant
Nov 06, 2012 | 11:09 AM
| Suzy Waite
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Alcoa,
Ferndale,
homogenizing furnace,
aluminum billet,
Suzy Waite
NEW YORK — Aluminum billet shipments from Alcoa Inc.’s Ferndale, Wash., smelter were delayed late last week due to furnace problems.
A mechanical breakdown on one of the homogenizing furnaces, which stabilize billet chemistry, forced the Pittsburgh-based producer to temporarily shut down the furnace for a few days, a source....
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