LONDON, June 29 (Reuters) - Aluminium smelters in the United States <font color="FF0000">have been cutting back output in recent months</font> in the face of surging power prices there.
A water shortage has also begun to curtail Brazilian output.


Other producers, however, have been restarting idled capacity and bringing new plants on stream.

Following is an overview of major production developments since the beginning of last year in the primary aluminium sector:

June 28, 2001 - Alcoa Inc (NYSE:AA - news) said to cut aluminium output at 54 pct-owned Alumar smelter in Brazil by 63,000 tonnes per year (tpy) from July 1 to comply with government's request to reduce electricity consumption. Full capacity 370,000 tpy.


June 28, 2001 - Kaiser Aluminum (NYSE:KLU - news) said it was ``disappointed

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