---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0000949157-22-000052"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "CENX"
cik: "0000949157"
company_name: "CENTURY ALUMINUM CO"
filed_at: "2022-11-07T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-22T06:25:36.426521+00:00"
event_type: "earnings"
sentiment: "negative"
materiality_score: 0.8
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.8
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Century Aluminum Q3: Shipments down 19%, adjusted net loss $34.2M vs prior quarter profit

## Summary
- Net sales fell to $637.2M from $856.6M Q2; shipments 173,725 tonnes (down 19% due to Hawesville curtailment).
- Adjusted net loss $34.2M (adj EPS -$0.34) vs adjusted net income $30.4M (adj EPS $0.30) in Q2.
- Adjusted EBITDA swung to -$35.9M from positive $86.6M in prior quarter.
- Realized LME aluminum price $2,636/T, down $425/T from Q2.
- Total liquidity $215M as of Sept 30; secured $90M credit facility for Vlissingen in Nov 2022.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0000949157-22-000052
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: CENX
- cik: 0000949157
- company_name: CENTURY ALUMINUM CO
- filed_at: 2022-11-07T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: earnings
- sentiment: negative
- materiality_score: 0.8
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.8
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 2.02, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/949157/000094915722000052/0000949157-22-000052-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/949157/000094915722000052/cenx-20221107.htm

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- HTML: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000949157-22-000052
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- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000949157-22-000052.txt

## Key facts
- Earnings Releases
  CENTURY ALUMINUM CO reported financial results for quarter ended September 30, 2022.
  - Period: quarter ended September 30, 2022
  - Result: reported results
  source text: On November 7, 2022, Century Aluminum Company (the "Company") issued a press release announcing its results of operations for quarter ended September 30, 2022.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/949157/000094915722000052/0000949157-22-000052-index.htm

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