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> The smelter’s capacity of 263,000 tonnes per year is roughly one third of the total US aluminium production of 894,000 tonnes, according to data from the Center for Strategic Industrial Materials at Securing America’s Future Energy (SAFE), a Washington-based non-partisan think tank.

*capacity*, but is that actual production?

> However, domestic production of aluminium made up only around 15% of total US consumption of the light metal in 2022, according to data from the US Geological Survey (USGS). The US imported 5.9 million tonnes of aluminium that year, with the majority coming from Canada, the data showed.

ok so if this really is 30% it drops our domestic production from 15% to 10%. womp womp. Sounds scarier the other way.

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> “The difference in [aluminium smelting] capacity can be made up from Canada,” he said. “It will not have a huge impact.”


https://www.fastmarkets.com/insights/magnitude-7-aluminium-smelter-in-missouri-mulling-over-closure/