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...five plants, Alcoa owns one, operates two others for Defense Plant Corp. And it supplies alumina (the oxide from which aluminum is made) from its Mobile plant to the two others, operated by Reynolds Metals Co. and by Olin Corp., a subsidiary of Western Cartridge. Come peace and an end to WPB's control of alumina, Alcoa might decide to pull out of the two DPC plants and cut off alumina. This could kill the new industry...
Infant No. 2. Last week, WPB acted to forestall this possibility. It approved construction of a $4,000,000 alumina refinery plant at Salem, Ore., by another infant, Columbia Metals Corp. The new member of the family is fathered by such West Coast bigwigs as Boeing President Philip Johnson, President Eric Johnston of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, Weyerhauser Timber Company's Norton Clapp. The plant, to be built with DPC cash, will produce alumina from the West Coast's vast beds of clay. It will be the first plant in the U.S. to use this process...
...trying out such a process now) or rely completely on bauxite imports, mainly from British and Dutch Guiana. This would mean that the U.S. might become a have-not nation in the No. 1 raw material of the light-metal age. The last alternative is to resort to producing alumina from clay or other non-bauxites...
Dolomite and Kilowatt. To get more U.S. manganese, alumina, magnesium, chromium, vanadium and phosphates-all scarce and all vital- Ickes had fairly specific immediate plans. He knows of 2,683,000 tons of recoverable manganese hidden in small ore bodies; eight mills and three hydrometallurgical plants could turn it into a four years' supply within five years. The Bureau of Mines has a two-stage process for getting alumina from a variety of domestic clays, shales and feldspars; if WPB would specify this process in future alumina plants instead of the commercial Bayer process, it would save the long...
Several other processes for recovering alumina from clay have also been announced. TVA has been experimenting with one for the past five years (TIME, Sept. 23, 1940). If they work, bauxite can be crossed off the list of raw materials for which nations scheme, dicker, bicker, fight...