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Christmas in October! – Jamalco leads repairs to Clarendon Infirmary
November 3, 2008
“Christmas in October! Thank you Jamalco.” This was the response of one employee at the Clarendon Infirmary to the refurbishing work carried out by Jamalco and community volunteers at the infirmary on Friday and Saturday October 24 and 25.
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Jamalco Launches Mentorship Programme at Vere Technical High School
November 3, 2008
Students of Vere Technical High School in Clarendon are to benefit from a mentorship programme organized by Jamalco and launched at the school on Tuesday, October 21.
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Jamalco Volunteers Plant Trees for Month of Service
October 10, 2008
Some 100 Jamalco and community volunteers planted just over 300 trees on Friday, October 3 to begin the company’s annual Month of Service activities and to mark World Tree Planting Day.
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Jamalco Rolls Out $1 million Back-to-School Programme - Fourteen get $350,000 in Scholarships
July 31, 2008
Fourteen children from Manchester and Clarendon will take their places in high schools come September, courtesy of scholarships from Jamalco.
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Jamalco's 2007 Sustainability Report
October 2, 2008
Review Jamalco’s 2007 financial, environmental, and community performance.
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Jamalco 2005-2006 Sustainability Report
August 8, 2007
Review Jamalco’s 2005-2006 financial, environmental, and community performance.
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Alcoa Plays Part in Nobel Peace Prize on Climate Change
September 11, 2008
Nobel winner IPCC recognizes four Alcoa employees for their efforts in accumulating and disseminating knowledge about climate change
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Alcoa Takes Action on Climate Change; Becomes Founding Reporter of The Climate Registry
January 15, 2008
NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Alcoa (NYSE:AA) announced today that it has become a Founding Reporter on The Climate Change Registry, a non-profit organization that measures and publicly reports greenhouse gas emissions (GHG) in a common, accurate and transparent manner consistent across industry sectors and borders.
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Alcoa’s roots in Jamaica go back to 1959 with the formation of Alcoa Minerals of Jamaica, a wholly owned subsidiary of Alcoa. The company mined bauxite for export, with the first shipment in 1963.
In 1972, the company began processing bauxite into alumina at a new refinery in Halse Hall, Clarendon, with a production capacity of 500,000 metric tonne per year (mtpy), and exporting alumina from its port facility at Rocky Point. The refinery's capacity was upgraded to one million mtpy in 1999, and then to 1.25 million mtpy in 2003. The completion of a further upgrade in March 2007 lifted the production capacity of the refinery to 1.425 million tonnes per year.
In 1988, the Government of Jamaica acquired a 50 percent share in the operations. The resulting company was name Jamalco, with Alcoa as the managing partner. Following the expansion completed in 2007, Jamalco is now owned 55 percent by Alcoa and 45 percent by the Government of Jamaica.
What We Do
Jamalco mines bauxite and refines it into alumina before exporting the alumina from its port at Rocky Point, Clarendon. On average, 2.5 tonnes of bauxite produce 1 tonne of alumina. The alumina is exported to aluminium smelters where it takes around 2 tonnes of alumina to produce 1 tonne of aluminium metal.
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Links to more information about Jamalco
Jamalco - Building Communities
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Alcoa Foundation in Jamaica
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Aluminium and the Environment
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Aluminium... the Metal of the future
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Adding Value from the Ground up
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