Alcoa Corporation is a leading aluminum mining company. It maintains operating facilities in numerous locations worldwide. Alcoa is engaged in the mining of aluminum ores such as bauxite and the refining of such ores into cast and rolled aluminum to be sold to manufacturers. Alcoa also has plants for recycling used aluminum.
The company was organized in 1888 as the Pittsburgh Reduction Company. It was formed to produce aluminum by a process discovered by the American scientist Charles M. Hall in 1886. The company’s name was changed to the Aluminum Company of America in 1907. It changed its name to Alcoa Incorporated in 1998. In 2016, Alcoa spun off its aluminum manufacturing division into a separate company, called Arconic, and changed its own name to Alcoa Corporation. The company has headquarters in Pittsburgh , Pennsylvania , and in New York City , New York .
