[PRCo] Re: ALCOA ALUMINUM TO CLOSE PITTSBURG AREA PLANT

[Fred W. Schneider III]

You are talking about the plant in Lebanon County ... east of
Harrisburg, north of Lancaster, west of Reading ... 220 miles east of
Pittsburgh.  

Some years ago, ALCOA had plants all over the state.  In the east, there
was one in Cressona, Lebanon, and Lancaster.  The Lancaster one was
closed but through mergers, Alcoa ended up with a formed sheet plant
(rain gutters, siding)here.  The Lebanon facility was profitable.  They
sold the one in Cressona, Schuylkill County in the 1980s to the
employees.  Several years ago ALCOA bought it back.  Left Hand and Right
Hand Mentality? 

Judging from your statement, most of the loss is in Europe.  The only US
plant you mentioned has fewer than 300 employees.   

ROGER Jenkins wrote:
> 
> Alcoa Inc. to close one plant in Lebanon County and others in
> Netherlands , Germany  and the United Kingdom with the resultant loss of
> 6,500  jobs.