The company, a major player in an industry that collectively sends 80 per cent of its product to the United States, is ...

Pécresse's confidence is borne out in the numbers: Unlike steel, which has near-parity when it comes to Canada-U.S. trade, ...

That will surely hit mining giant Rio Tinto’s B.C. Works, which runs a massive aluminum smelter in Kitimat, for which the U.S. has become an increasingly important market since the last time a ...

Rio Tinto's aluminum smelter and hydropower facility in Kitimat was one of the largest contributors to B.C.'s manufacturing GDP in 2023, according to its website, contributing over $517 million to ...

The Rio Tinto Alcan aluminum smelter in Kitimat produces around 420,000 tonnes a year, comprising 14 per cent of total output from Canada’s nine smelters. The others are in Quebec. During a 70th ...

(Alliance News) - Rio Tinto PLC on Wednesday reported a healthy ... following the ramp-up of Kitimat and completion of cell recovery efforts at Boyne in the prior year, together with increased ...

“Canada has cheap hydro power.” Rio Tinto operates five aluminum smelters in Canada: Four in Quebec and one in B.C. Its BC Works smelter in Kitimat employs more than 1,000 workers. When ...