I used to spend my nights in the glow of molten metal. Inside the aluminum smelter, the air was thick with heat that wrapped around you like a heavy coat you couldn’t take off. Lightning cracked ...

Sweeping tariffs imposed by U.S. President Donald Trump on imported aluminum are reshaping global trade flows and inflating costs for American consumers. But they are falling short of their primary ...

Aluminum is an exceptionally useful metal. Lightweight, resistant to rust and able to be turned into alloys with other metals. Small wonder it's the second-most used metal in the world after iron and ...

LONDON, May 22 (Reuters) - It's forty-five years since anyone built a primary aluminium smelter in the United States. When Alumax fired up the Mt Holly plant in South Carolina in 1980, the country's ...

When John Holbrook first started working as a pipefitter in the early 1990s, jobs were easy to come by in his corner of northeastern Kentucky. A giant iron and steel mill routinely needed maintenance ...

I used to spend my nights in the glow of molten metal. Inside the aluminum smelter, the air was thick with heat that wrapped around you like a heavy coat you couldn’t take off. Lightning cracked ...