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    Moving into the 21st Century | Interview with Evan Quinley, Operations Manager at Alcoa - Warrick

    Alcoa Facility Overview

    Here at Alcoa Warrick, we have roughly three segments: we have our power plant, we have our smelter, and then we have what we call the rolling mill, which takes the aluminum that we produce at our smelter and converts it into coil stock that's used in the food and beverage industry.

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    Workforce and Global Footprint

    We have roughly just under 1,800 employees, so it's in the 1780s, and based upon Alcoa's worldwide global footprint, what percentage of the workers from Alcoa are based here globally?

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    Legacy and Community Impact

    60 years is a long legacy, and on a weekly basis, I experience that when I welcome all of our new hires that come on board, a lot of the folks talked about their family actually retiring from here.

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    Products and Manufacturing

    Here at Warrick, we just make coil stock, so it's a 40,000-pound coil that will be distributed to a can producer where they will make Endon tabs for food and beverage cans and also make body stock for food and beverage cans.

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    Recycling and Sustainability

    We're in the process of commissioning our new coded scrap melter, which is the largest furnace of its kind in North America, and what it can do is it can allow us to purchase coded scrap and reclaim those metal units in order to produce higher recycled scrap and higher recycled content product.

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    Energy Generation and Efficiency

    We have four generating units, we have three industrial units that provide power to the plant, and then we co-own a fourth unit with Vectren where we're able to sell power back onto the open market.

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    Future Developments and Initiatives

    We're currently creating a digital twin of our ingot department, so in the background, we're going to have this artificial intelligence telling us the most optimal path to get the end result, which is ingots.

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