Alcoa

Challenge Commitment

30 Plants

Goal

25% Reduction in Energy Intensity by 2020

Market Innovation

Alcoa has directed its businesses to increase focus on viable energy related capital improvement projects. To encourage support of our energy goals, Alcoa began linking leadership performance pay to achieving incremental energy-efficiency targets in 2010. Alcoa requires all projects greater than a specified cost consider energy efficiency in all aspects of the project from building envelope to equipment efficiency, to energy monitoring and fuel use.

Progress to Date

A 1.7% reduction in energy intensity was realized in 2010.

SHOWCASE PROJECT

Alcoa's enterprise-wide energy reduction initiative includes a $21 million investment to expand the Barberton, Ohio facility. The plan involves constructing a new 35,000 square foot building, that will use an advanced recycling and casting process to produce new wheels from re-melted and scrap aluminum. This building is the first of its kind in North America and will reduce energy consumption and greenhouse gas emissions.

In addition to improving the energy efficiency of the manufacturing process and providing more eco-friendly products such as lighter-weight wheels, the Barberton, Ohio investment will also create 30 full-time jobs and help protect more than 350 existing positions.

Aluminum Recycling Facility

New Barberton, OH

Background

Alcoa is the world leader in the production and management of primary aluminum, fabricated aluminum, and alumina combined, through its active and growing participation in all major aspects of the industry. Alcoa serves the aerospace, automotive, packaging, building and construction, commercial transportation, and industrial markets, bringing design, engineering, production, and other capabilities of Alcoa’s businesses to customers. In addition to aluminum products and components, including flat-rolled products, hard alloy extrusions, and forgings, Alcoa also markets Alcoa® wheels, fastening systems, precision and investment castings, and building systems. The Company has been named one of the top most sustainable corporations in the world at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, and has been a member of the Dow Jones Sustainability Index for eight consecutive years. Alcoa has been committed to energy reduction for many years. Joining the “Better Building, Better Plants Challenge” is an opportunity to enhance this priority.

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