B.C.’s sole aluminum smelter, located in the northwestern town of Kitimat, has landed square in the crosshairs of U.S. President Donald Trump’s tariff war, leaving its owner scrambling to adjust.

Aluminum smelting operations require molten cryolite, also commonly called bath, to serve as the electrolyte and dissolve alumina. A typical smelter produces excess bath over time, and there are few ...

Century Aluminum CEO Jesse Gary breaks down the national and economic impact from President Trump's tariff policies, how it affects his business and the building of a new smelter. Russian spy ...

Photo: Wolfgang Rattay/Reuters A four-hour drive north of the U.S. border, the first big Western aluminum smelter to be built in more than a decade is coming to life on the front line of President ...

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Plants officials noted the facility had returned to normal operations just over a week later. The alumina dust led to a lawsuit being filed against the smelter. On Oct. 24, 2023, SCDHEC held an ...

Find her on Bluesky @amandafollett.bsky.social. The northern community of Kitimat was founded on aluminum. Today, its smelter, the only major smelter outside Quebec in Canada, employs more than ...

Rio Tinto’s BC Works aluminum smelter in KitimatRio Tinto Starting this week, all unwrought aluminum produced at the BC Works smelter in Kitimat and exported to the U.S.—which is to say 80 per ...

tate-owned aluminum producer PT Indonesia Asahan Aluminium (Inalum) aims to complete a feasibility study and final investment decision (FID) on the second phase of its smelter-grade alumina ...

The company, which describes itself as the biggest aluminum smelter on the continent, can find new export markets if demand weakens in the U.S., he said. "Aluminerie Alouette can quickly turn and ...