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2 Letter to Shareholders
5 Where’s Alcoa?
17 News2000
29 Financial and
Corporate Data
30 Trends in Alcoa’s
Major Markets
32 Worldwide Operations
64 Directors
65 Officers
66 Shareholder Information
67 Glossary
68 Index
CONTENTS
• World’s leading producer of
primary aluminum, fabricated
aluminum, and alumina. Active
in all major aspects of the
industry – technology, mining,
refining, smelting, fabricating,
and recycling.
• Alcoa’s aluminum products and
components are used worldwide in
aircraft, automobiles, beverage
cans, buildings, chemicals, sports
and recreation, and a wide variety
of industrial and consumer
applications, including Alcoa’s own
consumer brands such as Alcoa®
wheels, Reynolds Wrap®aluminum
foil and Baco®household wraps.
• Related businesses include
packaging machinery, precision
castings, vinyl siding, plastic
bottles and closures, fiber optic
cables, and electrical distribution
systems for cars and trucks.
• Vital statistics: 142,000 Alcoans
in 37 countries, $22.9 billion
in revenues, and in 2000 it was
5 times safer to work at Alcoa
than it was in 1990.
• Our worldwide performance
standard is the Alcoa Business
System, an integrated set of
systems and tools organized to
provide a common language
and unencumbered transfer of
knowledge across businesses
and geographies.
• Alcoa’s values begin with
integrity, respect for our people,
their safety and health, and
for the environment within which
we live and work, anywhere
in the world.
ALCOA AT A GLANCE
Tracey O’Neal and Kevin Pate run a
simulation of the investment casting process.
Howmet’s advanced casting technology
came to Alcoa with the Cordant acquisition.