Wenatchee waits and wonders about aluminum smelter’s future
Originally published August 26, 2017 at 8:00 am Updated August 28, 2017 at 1:08 am
After nearly a half-century of continuous operation, the Alcoa Wenatchee Works first shut down in 2001. It was restarted in 2004 only to be shut again in 2015 when aluminum prices fell again. Consequently... (Mike Bonnicksen/The Wenatchee World) More
The off-again, on-again history of Wenatchee’s massive Alcoa aluminum plant has left the city and former workers unsure about its prospects, even as ingot prices climb to levels that previously sustained one of the Northwest’s last surviving smelters.
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