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Alcoa shows its metal

The world's leading aluminium producer is casting itself into a bigger, more global shape, writes <b>Tim Treadgold</b>

Tim Treadgold
Alcoa shows its metal

From an initial production run of 2000 cooking pots in 1888, to sales of US$21.4 billion in 2003. So goes the "potted history of Alcoa, a company built on aluminium. The first pots were produced by...

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