Alcoa (NYSE:AA) announced today that Ron Barin has been elected a Vice President and an officer of the company. He is also Chief Investment Officer, Pension Investments, overseeing the investment of $15 billion of assets for Alcoa's retirement benefits plans and the Alcoa ...
Alcoa operations in Monterrey, Mexico has been recognized by the Great Place to Work® Institute as one of the Top Ten Places to Work in Mexico in the Multinationals category. The facility - part of Alcoa Wheel and Transportation Products - placed #1 in the Northeast Region. In 2011, Alcoa Monterrey was #12 on the national list; this time it climbed to the 7th spot among the 900 companies that applied.
The Central Park Conservancy, an internationally recognized leader in park management and restoration, has been awarded a $500,000 grant from Alcoa Foundation and an in-kind donation of aluminum valued at $140,000 from Alcoa to design a sustainable waste management system, to increase recycling and make trash removal in the Park more efficient. The system is expected to set a new standard in how waste is handled in the [...]
Alcoa today published its 2011 Sustainability Report which details the company's global environmental, social and economic performance. It is the 11th year in a row Alcoa has produced the report. 'Sustainability is not a catalog of processes, nor merely a philosophy at Alcoa,' said Chairman and CEO Klaus Kleinfeld. 'Rather, it is part of everything we do.' Alcoa businesses use a Sustainability Scorecard to align [...]
Alcoa has been named one of China′s Top 100 Green Companies by Green Company Magazine in its annual ranking of corporate sustainability practices. It is the second year in a row Alcoa has been recognized by the publication for environmental leadership. The ranking was initiated by Green Company Magazine, Chinese Entrepreneur Association and Daonong Center for Enterprise, a leading Chinese think tank on developing entrepreneurship. [...]
The Board of Directors of Alcoa (NYSE:AA) declared (a) a quarterly common stock dividend of 3 cents per share payable May 25, 2012 to shareholders of record at the close of business on May 14, 2012 and (b) a quarterly dividend of 93.75 cents per share on Alcoa′s $3.75 ...
Alcoa will host a live webcast of its Annual Meeting of Shareholders on Friday, May 4, 2012, beginning at 9:30 a.m. Registration for the webcast is required. To register, go to alcoa.com. The meeting will be webcast via Alcoa2s website with presentation materials available on-line. A replay of the webcast will be available by close of business on Friday, May 4 at this same website.
Today, Alcoa unveiled one of the first commercial building installations of Reynobond® with EcoClean™, the architectural panel that cleans itself and the air around it, at the new ERI facility in Badin, N.C. The product is installed at ERI’s Southeast regional electronics recycling hub, which is expected to create up to 200 new jobs in central North Carolina.
Alcoa announced today that Mike Barriere has been promoted to Vice President, Human Resources effective May 1. He succeeds Jack Bergen, who will become Vice President, Corporate Projects. Barriere will also become a member of the Alcoa Executive Council, the senior leadership team that sets corporate strategic direction. Alcoa has 61,000 employees in 31 countries.
Alcoa announced today that it has delivered a set of two 'ready for installation' aluminum Amah tips to Austal USA for use on the future Littoral Combat Ship USS Jackson (LCS 6). An Amah tip is the leading edge of the all-aluminum, trimaran-type vessel′s outrigger, or amah, and is more than seven feet across and weighs 850 pounds. The LCS 6 is currently being built for the U.S. Navy at Austal′s Mobile, Alabama [...]