Kevin Lowery
Kevin Lowery
agreement allow continue employees facilities fair hope operate reach
Our hope is that we will be able to reach an agreement that will be fair to employees and allow our facilities to continue to operate in a competitive market.
aspects cost early environmental needs
It is one of the options. It is at a very early stage. Obviously, the cost feasibility of it is one of the aspects that needs to be ironed out as does the environmental feasibility.
economic happened minister
I don't think the economic minister would have happened to be in Pittsburgh.
cost electricity global higher initial throw top
Even at the initial price, (the electricity cost) is way higher than the global average. Then you throw the new cost on top of it and that's why it got curtailed.
roots
Our roots are here. We're not going anywhere.
locations plan run work
If there's a work stoppage, we plan to run the plants. Each of the 15 locations has a big contingency plan.
definition five legal line office principal took
The legal definition is where your principal office is. So we are now in line with what took place five years ago.
base center change corporate employees five happened offices paper piece technical thousands three words
This change is three words on a piece of paper that happened five years ago. ...We've got our base here (in Pittsburgh), our corporate offices are here, our technical center is here, we have thousands of employees here. It is just some kind of a logistical thing.
money spend
We spend a lot of money on this plan.
begun employees frame informed intend last obviously plant sales sell time
We intend to sell the business, of which the plant is part of the business. We informed employees last night. We have just begun the sales process. There is no time frame on this, but we would obviously like to do it quickly.
continue employment level
We continue to have the same level of employment here.
aligned best director interests sure
We do that as another part of making sure director interests are aligned with shareholders. The best way to do that is to make sure they are shareholders.
global people understand
We're a global company. We need people who understand global issues.
continue explore power ways
We said when we curtailed that smelter that we would continue to explore ways that we would be able to find low-cost or competitively priced power to restart it.