Investing in our communities

Being a valued corporate citizen means being socially responsible, listening to our community stakeholders and providing financial and/or in-kind support where we understand the need is the greatest.

Since our inception, Kaiser Aluminum has been committed to supporting our communities in ways that help local charitable organizations and service agencies create a positive and meaningful impact.

Protecting community health

Our Trentwood facility opened during World War II to create aluminum for airplane production. Since then, it has continued to innovate, grow and expand, staying abreast of manufacturing trends and environmental best practices. Prior to 1979, polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) were used throughout the facility for fire safety. While they were eliminated from our manufacturing process decades ago, their presence remains. Working directly with the Washington State Department of Ecology and local stakeholders in the early 2000s, we began to identify and remove sources of PCB.

From 2013 to 2022, we piloted multiple programs aimed at removing PCBs from groundwater, including a new technology that allows us to efficiently destroy – not just capture and dispose of – PCBs in groundwater. Our implementation of this technology is one of many ways we demonstrate our ongoing commitment to environmental stewardship and the wellbeing of our communities.

Building positive relationships with the regulatory agencies and our communities is a priority because, in the end, we all want to do the right thing.”

Elena Wolf
Manager, Environmental Affairs, Trentwood
At work in the community

We are always looking for new ways to engage with and support local communities so that we can make a positive impact on the places in which we live and work.

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