Kaiser Aluminum

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Kaiser Aluminum Corporation

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legal form Corporation
ISIN US4830077040
founding 1946
Seat Lake Forest , California United StatesUnited StatesUnited States 
management Jack A. Hockema (CEO and Chairman)
Number of employees 2770
sales 1.4 billion US dollars
Branch Raw materials
Website www.kaiseraluminum.com
As of December 31, 2017

The Kaiser Aluminum plant in Baton Rouge (1972). The old Mississippi Bridge can be seen on the right .

Kaiser Aluminum is an American manufacturer of semi-finished metal products made of aluminum . These include extruded aluminum rods, pipes, wires or flat aluminum. The markets that Kaiser Aluminum supplies include aircraft, automotive and general mechanical engineering. Kaiser operates 12 manufacturing facilities in the United States and has sales offices in Paris and Beijing. The company began in 1946 when the famous industrialist Henry John Kaiser leased three state-owned aluminum plants in Washington State and later bought them. The company's products are used in a variety of ways, starting in 1959, the steel structure of the United States Air Force Academy Cadet Chapel in Colorado Springs was clad with aluminum from the Kaiser's production. The building received the Twenty-five Year Award in 1996 . Due to a poor economic situation, the California energy crisis and legal disputes in connection with the use of asbestos , Kaiser produced fire protection insulation for the US Navy in the 1950s, among other things, and the company had to file for bankruptcy in 2002. The bankruptcy was followed by a restructuring phase until 2006, after which the company was able to leave the bankruptcy proceedings. In 2018 Kaiser Aluminum took over the Imperial Machine & Tool Company, a contract manufacturer for milled parts and components that are manufactured using additive manufacturing processes.

In the 1950s, the Halethorpe site in Maryland was home to two of the largest extrusion presses for extrusion parts made of aluminum, which were developed as part of the Heavy Press Program . The lightweight components produced were mainly used in the aviation industry. Today the site belongs to Alcoa .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Kaiser Aluminum: Our History accessed on January 26, 2019
  2. ^ Kaiser Aluminum: Board of Directors accessed on January 26, 2019
  3. ^ Kaiser Aluminum: 10-K SEC-Filing Annual Report, accessed January 26, 2019
  4. ^ Kaiser Aluminum: Our Facilities. Accessed January 26, 2019
  5. ^ The New York Times: COMPANY NEWS; KAISER ALUMINUM FILES FOR BANKRUPTCY PROTECTION accessed on January 26, 2019
  6. ↑ asbestos.com: Kaiser Aluminum accessed on January 26, 2019
  7. ^ Kaiser Aluminum: Kaiser Aluminum Emerges from Chapter 11.Retrieved January 26, 2019
  8. ^ Imperial Machine & Tool Co .: Imperial Machine & Tool Co. Acquired by Kaiser Aluminum Corporation.Retrieved January 26, 2019
  9. ↑ boingboing.net: The machines that made the Jet Age, accessed on February 4, 2019