Cheaper Energy Worldwide Means American-Made Aluminum Likely To Become A Thing Of The Past
ByJOHN MILLER•8 HOURS AGO
One of President Trump’s signature campaign speeches was at a scrap aluminum plant near Pittsburgh in January 2016.
“We are going to put American steel -- and aluminum – back into the backbone of our country,” he said at the speech in Monessen, Pa. “This alone will create massive numbers of jobs, high-paying jobs.”
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Aluminum manufacturing has changed since Alcoa first began in the late 1800s. Now, most cheap aluminum is made outside the United States. So what role does Alcoa play in the industry now? 90.5 WESA’s Katie Blackley produced this report.
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