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Looks like the Atalco Gramercy plant is having some issues
Posted on 11/1/24 at 2:54 pm
Posted on 11/1/24 at 2:54 pm
Plant baws... what's the scoop?
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Parish Tax Problems
Not Paying Contractors
Environmental Issues
So we have a mercury polluter who isn't paying taxes and isn't paying contractors. Hopefully they are at least paying their employees!
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Parish Tax Problems
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Filed with the St. James Parish Clerk of Court, the school board first placed tax liens in March. In the document, it assessed just over $400,000 in unpaid taxes from January 2017 through June 2020 and $726,757 in unpaid taxes for November 2023 and January and February 2024.
Since then, the school board has placed liens for the months of March through August, totaling around $1,240,000. According to the documents, the company paid $100,000 in taxes for August, leading to a lower lien that month.
Not Paying Contractors
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The company is also facing civil actions concerning alleged failure to pay contractors.
In July 2023, industrial services firm Brandsafeway LLC filed a statement of claim and privilege with the St. James Parish Clerk of Court, alleging Atalco failed to pay it $1,020,796 for supplying, constructing and dismantling scaffolding and related materials.
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And on Oct. 16, Texas-based Elite Refractory filed its own statement of claim and privilege, alleging Atalco owed it $949,236. According to the document, the two companies signed a contract in May for Elite Refractory to provide construction services and equipment for a project. It stated Atalco had paid a little over $1.2 million but had not provided the remaining amount.
Environmental Issues
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The alleged debts follow other recent controversy at the facility. Last year, the Mine Safety and Health Administration cited the company for 36 health and safety violations and ordered it to remove two workers.
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Earlier this year, St. James Parish officials reported emissions of white, aluminum oxide dust to the Louisiana Department of Environmental Quality.
And in June, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency recommended to state officials the plant should try to cut 99% of mercury emissions.
So we have a mercury polluter who isn't paying taxes and isn't paying contractors. Hopefully they are at least paying their employees!
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Posted on 11/1/24 at 3:04 pm to LSUFanHouston
I’m always amazed how long companies are allowed to get away with this kind of shite
Posted on 11/1/24 at 3:06 pm to LSUFanHouston
They have been in really bad financial shape for years. Last plant of its kind in the south but it’s just not profitable.
Posted on 11/1/24 at 3:14 pm to LSUFanHouston
wow
Posted on 11/1/24 at 3:54 pm to LSUFanHouston
We threaten them every few months with picking up our rental equipment for delinquent invoices but they always pay albiet 90 days late
Posted on 11/1/24 at 4:11 pm to LSUFanHouston
That site is an utter shite show. It has swapped more hands in the last ten years alone. Place is dirty as all hell, smells from the Bauxite everyday, the people work in awful conditions. It is the embodiment of a slumlord running an apartment complex.
Posted on 11/1/24 at 4:13 pm to LSUFanHouston
Is this the old Kaiser Aluminum plant?
Posted on 11/1/24 at 4:34 pm to LSUFanHouston
What is this for us non New Orleanians? Is that an old Shell Refinery or something?
Posted on 11/1/24 at 4:41 pm to supadave3
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Is this the old Kaiser Aluminum plant?
Yes, and as another poster stated, it’s changed hands many times over the years but the plant is a giant POS and treats contractors and vendors horribly. They pay hundreds of thousands of dollars ever year in MSHA fines and earlier this year 5 employees were badly burned with caustic. It stinks, it’s nasty and they give zero fricks about safety or pollution.
Posted on 11/1/24 at 5:16 pm to aTmTexas Dillo
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Is that an old Shell Refinery or something?
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Place is dirty as all hell, smells from the Bauxite everyday, the people work in awful conditions. It is the embodiment of a slumlord running an apartment complex.
Well, let's just say if Bauxite wasn't mentioned, you'd be over the target
Posted on 11/1/24 at 5:36 pm to LSUFanHouston
These guys run up credit with contractors, close down the facility, then reopen with another name. Same people. Same shitty business plan. They got my company for almost $250k.
Posted on 11/1/24 at 7:29 pm to The Goon
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These guys run up credit with contractors, close down the facility, then reopen with another name.
Exactly. Just in the last 20 years they went from Kaiser, Noranda, LAlumina and now Atalco. The only reason they are allowed to keep going is because they contribute most of MSHAs funding.
Posted on 11/1/24 at 7:31 pm to roguetiger15
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they always pay albiet 90 days late
Must be nice
They haven’t paid us in over a year
Luckily it’s not a large amount
Posted on 11/1/24 at 8:08 pm to LSUJML
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They haven’t paid us in over a year
We just stop quoting and processing orders when they get above 100k overdue
We also hold shipments hostage
Always a show
Posted on 11/1/24 at 8:20 pm to JohnnyBgood
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LAlumina
They changed to LAlumina at one point? I used to work there and also at the Burnside plant. Burnside changed from Almatis to LAlumina and then we shut down shortly afterwards and I was laid off. Moved to Noranda for a few months before finally finding a legit operator job.
That place is insanely unsafe. They hire people with little experience and the training is laughable. And the forced OT is another animal. You literally just wade out into pools of hot spent caustic that can be over a foot deep.
Posted on 11/1/24 at 9:03 pm to LSUFanHouston
It’s been in financial trouble for years - nothing new.
Ticking timebomb with the amount of dust on their switchgear
Ticking timebomb with the amount of dust on their switchgear
Posted on 11/1/24 at 9:23 pm to lsusteve1
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Ticking timebomb with the amount of dust on their switchgear
I want to see this place. Do they offer tours, or do I have to actually work a shift to get inside?
Posted on 11/1/24 at 10:43 pm to back9Tiger
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Looks like the Atalco Gramercy plant is having some issuesby back9Tiger
That site is an utter shite show. It has swapped more hands in the last ten years alone. Place is dirty as all hell, smells from the Bauxite everyday, the people work in awful conditions. It is the embodiment of a slumlord running an apartment complex.
There are countless plants like this around here that dosent care about OSHA, contractors, or safety and its getting worse. Violia, Honeywell, and Uncle Sam are just a few. The state government won't do anything because the politicians are bought by them. There are no strong unions to back up employees anymore, so if an employee refuses to do something that is wrong, unethical, or unsafe they can and will find a reason to get rid of that person.....But they will make it appear legitimate.
Posted on 11/2/24 at 4:38 am to RemyLeBeau
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Well, let's just say if Bauxite wasn't mentioned, you'd be over the target
Oh, the lateritic soil.
You Louisiana baws live in a cesspool.
Posted on 11/2/24 at 5:26 am to JohnnyBgood
I thought Kaiser Aluminum had a BR plant on intersection of US Hwy 190 and the MS River. On the East bank, adjacently north of 190 on the River.
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