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[October 2007]
Alcoa's Kevin Anton Elected Chairman of Aluminum Association Board
Alcoa (New York, USA) has announced that Kevin Anton, Vice President of Alcoa and President of Alcoa Materials Management, has been elected chairman of the board of The Aluminum Association at the trade organisation’s annual membership meeting in Tucson, Arizona.
Mr Anton succeeds Patrick Franc, President of ARCO Aluminum. Mr Anton’s two-year term begins on 1 January 2008. He has been Vice Chairman of the Association for the past two years.
As President of Alcoa Materials Management, Kevin Anton is responsible for Alcoa’s trading, sales and marketing activities related to primary products, including the physical and financial trading of primary and scrap aluminium, electricity trading and transportation purchasing. He is also the Chief Financial Officer for Alcoa’s Global Primary Products. This involves overseeing financial activities and strategy for Alcoa’s nine alumina refineries, bauxite assets in Australia, Brazil, Jamaica, Suriname and Guinea and the company’s world-wide smelting system. He has been a Vice President of Alcoa since 2006.
Previously, he worked as Vice President of Finance for Alcoa’s Primary Products group and joined the company as Vice President of Alcoa World Alumina and Chemicals.
Earlier in his career, Mr Anton held senior management positions at Alumax Inc, including Vice President and controller for Alumax’s primary aluminium group and Director of Business Planning.
The Aluminum Association, based in Arlington, VA, USA, with offices in Detroit, represents US and foreign-based primary producers of aluminium, recyclers and producers of semi-fabricated products. It also represents companies that supply products and services to the aluminium industry. Member companies operate more than 200 plants in North America and many conduct business world-wide.
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