Fire-Damaged Auto Aluminum Plant Closer to Restarting -- WSJ

Dow Jones05-19 23:45

By Bob Tita

A fire-damaged aluminum rolling plant in upstate New York that supplies Ford Motor and other automakers will return to service in the next few weeks, its owner said Tuesday.

The restart of the Oswego, N.Y., Novelis plant is running slightly ahead of the company's earlier target for restarting the plant at the end of June, the company said. Ford, which is the U.S. auto industry's biggest user of aluminum, said in April it expected Oswego's rolling line to restart this month.

The plant is the largest domestic supplier of aluminum sheet for the U.S. automotive industry, serving about a dozen companies, including Ford, General Motors, Jeep and Ram parent Stellantis, and foreign automakers with U.S. production facilities.

Two major fires at the Oswego plant last fall idled the plant's rolling line. The outage has been particularly disruptive for Ford, which uses aluminum for the body of the F-150 pickup truck, America's best-selling vehicle for many years. A shortage of aluminum reduced Ford's inventories of trucks at its dealers going into the typically busy summer sales season.

Atlanta-based Novelis, a unit of India's Hindalco Industries, has been supplying aluminum to Ford from its plants in Europe and South Korea. But the company's imported metal is subject to a 50% duty under President Trump's tariff regime, which is passed along to automakers when they purchase the aluminum.

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