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Issuer:     CENTURY ALUMINUM CO (CENX)
CIK:        0000949157
Form:       8-K
Filed at:   2022-06-22T23:59:59+00:00
Accession:  0001104659-22-073515
Event type: other_material
Sentiment:  negative
Materiality: 0.70
Item codes: 7.01, 9.01
LLM model:  deepseek-v4-flash:cloud@v2

Century Aluminum to idle Hawesville smelter for 9-12 months due to tripled energy costs
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- Idling process begins June 27, 2022; expects restart when energy prices normalize in ~9-12 months.
- Hawesville is the largest U.S. Century smelter and largest North American producer of military-grade aluminum.
- Over 600 employees receive WARN Act notice of temporary layoff; company to assist with unemployment and training.
- Energy costs have more than tripled historical average, driven by Russian war in Ukraine; no other plants affected.
- CEO Jesse Gary cites unprecedented energy price rise as cause for the temporary curtailment.

Source:
  EDGAR index:    https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/949157/000110465922073515/0001104659-22-073515-index.htm
  Primary doc:    https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/949157/000110465922073515/tm2219060d1_8k.htm
  HTML page:      https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001104659-22-073515

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