Kaiser Aluminum Corp.
To generations of Spokane residents, the Trentwood rolling mill represented steady, blue-collar employment, with the kind of paychecks that bought homes, put kids through college and made family vacations possible. But the plant today is a much different operation than it was even a few years ago.
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Kaiser Aluminum still displays its iconic sign atop the Trentwood facility. Instead of lighting with troublesome neon, flood lights now shine on the letters.
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Scott Endres is Kaiser Aluminum’s vice president of rolled products.
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A brochure shows the parts of an airplane supplied by Kaiser Aluminum products.
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Dan Wilson is president of United Steelworkers Local 338. Many of its members work at Kaiser Aluminum.
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Longtime Kaiser Aluminum employee Jim Erickson works on maintaining the cranes.
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Tom Henson, a heat treat operator at Kaiser Aluminum, controls a crane, using suction pads, as it picks up a 5,000-pound product sheet at the Trentwood facility.
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A United Steelworkers flag sits atop an audio control box in the Local 338 union hall on east Trent Avenue.
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Kaiser Aluminum employee Greg Clark rolls past the heat treat furnace at the Trentwood facility.
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Students from Orchard Center Elementary School sent notes of thanks to the United Steelworkers Local 338 hall on East Trent Avenue.
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