Alcoa opens first wheel plant in China

Dec 13, 2012 | 03:23 PM | Samuel Frizell

Tags  Alcoa, Alcoa wheel and transportation, Tim Myers, forged wheels, Samuel Frizell

NEW YORK — Alcoa Inc.’s wheel and transportation division officially opened its first fully integrated wheel manufacturing facility in Suzhou, China, Thursday.

Pittsburgh-based Alcoa began selling wheels out of Shanghai in 2004 and has since expanded its employee base to Guangzhou, Beijing, Jinan and Suzhou, but the company hadn’t produced wheels in China before. ....





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