RPT-COLUMN-Alcoa and the painful business of making aluminium: Andy Home

The clue is in the name. Aluminum Company of America was born in 1907 after a change of name from the original Pittsburg Reduction Company, although even in 1888 the company's founders had initially toyed with the name of Pittsburg Aluminium Company. 

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