The United States was the leading primary aluminum producer in the world in 2000 but is now ninth with four U.S. smelters in operation, down from 23 in 1993, said energy group SAFE.
“A new domestic smelter puts the U.S. back in the game and reverses our dangerous, decades-long decline in primary aluminum production,” said Joe Quinn, director of the Center for Strategic Industrial Materials at SAFE.
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