MX Holdings and Century Aluminum Announces Their Intent to form a New Joint Venture, Focusing on the Casting of Low Carbon Secondary Billet

Century Aluminum Company is a global producer of primary aluminum and operates aluminum reduction facilities, or smelters. The Company operates in the United States and Iceland. The Company's primary aluminum reduction facilities produce primary aluminum products. The Company's annual production capacity is approximately 1,016,000 tons per year (tpy). In addition to its primary aluminum assets, it owns a carbon anode production facility located in the Netherlands (Vlissingen). Carbon anodes are consumed in the production of primary aluminum. Vlissingen supplies carbon anodes to its aluminum smelter in Grundartangi, Iceland. Each of its aluminum smelters in the United States produces anodes at on-site facilities. Through its Natur-Al product line, it provides low-carbon aluminum products. The Grundartangi facility, located in Grundartangi, Iceland, is an aluminum reduction facility owned and operated by the Company’s wholly owned subsidiary, Nordural Grundartangi ehf.