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Aluminum facility to be built this year, doubling the current US smelting capacity
Posted on 4/12/26 at 8:08 pm
Posted on 4/12/26 at 8:08 pm
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This is very great news for American manufacturing.
$4B facility, 1,000 jobs, and will double our aluminum smelting capacity!
For context since 1980, aluminum smelting production has dropped more than 80% since then. Relying on imports these days.
Now EGA and Century Aluminum are putting $4B+ into Inola, Oklahoma. 750,000 tonnes/year.
This will double US production (huge win), construction starting this year, and aiming to have the first production run by 2029.
Energy will be a large concern in my eyes, but I am sure these people have a plan.
America is remembering how to build things again.
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Inola, Okla., known as the Hay Capital of the World, could soon have another moniker to consider: America’s Aluminum Epicenter.
The prairie town east of Tulsa has been selected by Emirates Global Aluminium, or EGA, and Chicago-based Century Aluminum CENX 0.98%increase; green up pointing triangle as the site for the first new aluminum smelter in the U.S. since 1980
Posted on 4/12/26 at 8:15 pm to hawgfaninc
This is great news, glad to see it.
Posted on 4/12/26 at 8:17 pm to hawgfaninc
What kind of frickin loser downvotes this news? 
Posted on 4/12/26 at 8:19 pm to AlterEd
Is this bc of Putin and that Pennsylvania company's plant the govt too over?
Any reason is cool with me
Any reason is cool with me
Posted on 4/12/26 at 8:19 pm to AlterEd
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What kind of frickin loser downvotes this news?
We have a lot of anti-American losers coping today.
Posted on 4/12/26 at 8:27 pm to hawgfaninc
Where are they going to get the alumina from to supply this smelter?
Posted on 4/12/26 at 8:31 pm to hawgfaninc
Great for the Cherokees, the original America first folks

Posted on 4/12/26 at 8:36 pm to PaperTiger
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Any reason is cool with me
High aluminum prices are the reason.
Posted on 4/12/26 at 8:39 pm to AlterEd
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loser downvotes this news?
people who want America to be dependent on other countries?
Posted on 4/12/26 at 10:32 pm to hawgfaninc
There must be excess hydroelectric power nearby otherwise cannot be economical or even close.
Posted on 4/12/26 at 10:57 pm to AlterEd
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What kind of frickin loser downvotes this news?
TDS sufferers is my guess.
Posted on 4/12/26 at 11:00 pm to hawgfaninc
Trump would do well to stop aligning with the cowards of the Cherokee Nation imo.
Posted on 4/13/26 at 5:26 am to AlterEd
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What kind of frickin loser downvotes this news?
A liberal
Posted on 4/13/26 at 6:09 am to Dog Tree
Look up the partners.
Hydro is all over Oklahoma.. main power plant production in the state.
Hydro is all over Oklahoma.. main power plant production in the state.
Posted on 4/13/26 at 6:13 am to Dog Tree
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Where are they going to get the alumina from to supply this smelter?
Well 40% will come from the metropolis of Gramercy, LA.
Posted on 4/13/26 at 6:17 am to AlterEd
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What kind of frickin loser downvotes this news?
A number of known regular leftists and quite a few of the TDS newcomers, as well.
Posted on 4/13/26 at 6:31 am to CitizenK
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There must be excess hydroelectric power nearby otherwise cannot be economical or even close.
When I was 12-15 in the early 80s, aluminum cans paid $.60/lb at the salvage yard. I started recycling them again 20 years ago and the price was $.40/lb. It stayed at that price until covid. It's now back to $,60/lb forty years later.
I have a friend that sits on a board of a small, local power co-op. They are 70% natural gas, 20% coal, 10% solar. Their biggest customer was an aluminum plant that went under in 2017. It came back online last year or 2024.
Posted on 4/13/26 at 6:43 am to Dog Tree
quote:Damn - I bet they never considered that.
Where are they going to get the alumina from to supply this smelter?
Posted on 4/13/26 at 6:44 am to hawgfaninc
Cool
When will it be online?
I just ran out of aluminum foil
When will it be online?
I just ran out of aluminum foil
Posted on 4/13/26 at 6:47 am to Dog Tree
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Where are they going to get the alumina from to supply this smelter?
Probably Mexico
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