1.   Aluminum smelters were given such favorable rates that competitors in the United States complained.

2.   BPA is proposing that aluminum smelters, which buy electricity directly from the agency, stop those purchases for up to two years beginning in October.

3.   A large aluminum smelter can use as much electricity as the city of Tacoma.

4.   Alcan Aluminium Ltd. said that workers went on strike today at three of its aluminum smelters and an aluminum refinery in Quebec.

5.   But the Japanese firm never came, leaving the island empty save for some small domestic firms and an aluminum smelter being built by an Iranian expatriate.

6.   Gencor now is looking at building another aluminum smelter in Mozambique.

7.   In nearby Tursunzade, Soviet Socialist labor built the largest aluminum smelter in Central Asia.

8.   Instead, his father ended up working at an aluminum smelter and, after six years, decided to return to England.

9.   Negotiations are under way with Brazilian interests to refine iron ore mined in the Amazon and with other foreign investors interested in building an aluminum smelter here.

10.   Projects include an aluminum smelter in Australia and a petrochemical plant in Indonesia.