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Mission
The Center is a community of scholars interested in identifying, facilitating and disseminating innovative observation-based business research on keeping America's aluminum industry sustainable.
Key themes for the Center are: Recycling programs, workforce development and deployment, and supply chain management. The research results from the Center contribute significantly to the competitiveness of the Aluminum industry to a global marketplace.
Research Themes
The Center's research agenda gives priority to funding multi-disciplinary research teams and focuses on the following research themes, which were identified by the Aluminum Industry as important to their future sustainability, in the Aluminum Industry Vision 2001 and 2004 CEO survey:
Recycling programs including acquiring a deeper understanding of the factors affecting recycling rates of aluminum products and suggestions for programs to increase recycling rates
Workforce development and deployment including efforts to analyze industry needs as related to required analytical skills for hourly and professional employees as well as efforts to examine work processes, worker deployment, and management practices as they affect plant performance
Supply chain management including a better understanding of the many facets of logistics - involving water, rail, and truck transportation, as well as the use of integrated electronic commerce to expedite movement of materials and end products
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