Alain J. P. Belda has been the Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer of Alcoa since January 2001.
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“Our aerospace and commercial transportation markets are particularly robust this year, and we expect overall market conditions to remain strong.”
Alain Belda
“That is the best long-term job protection we can offer all of our employees.”
“We are focused on managing what is under our control,”
“Despite significantly higher energy prices which offset more favorable metal prices, we achieved solid cost savings results from the restructuring undertaken over the last two years...,”
“While we are not pleased with the short term impact the labor issues have had on our bottom line, our actions are aimed at enhanced global competitiveness of our North American operations,”
“As demand for aluminum strengthens, we will capture the efficiencies generated by last year's strategic restructuring of our operations,”
“If economic trends solidify, we should continue to see improving profitability over the second half of the year, even at current aluminum prices,”
“The fourth quarter has proven to be extremely challenging as a result of lower volumes, depressed metal prices, and overall weak downstream markets.”
“achieve future sustained savings and profitable growth.”
“However, as these markets continued to decline in the third quarter, it became likely that even with our efforts, third-quarter earnings will probably fall below the 2000 second-quarter level.”