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Alcoa Looking to Buy a Power Plant to Provide Electricity for Its Aluminum Smelting Plant in MD

Posted on: Thursday, 20 October 2005, 21:00 CDT

By Daily Record Staff & Wire Reports

Alcoa Inc. is looking to buy a power plant to provide electricity to its threatened Eastalco Works aluminum smelting plant in Frederick County

. Eastalco is searching within a 100-mile radius of Buckeystown for an available generator, Plant Manager Brian Dahlberg told the Frederick News-Post. The company has notified all but 40 of its 640 workers the plant will likely close Dec. 15 because of sharply higher electricity costs.


Source: The Daily Record (Baltimore)

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