Like Dixon's aluminum ingots, sweaters, however colorful, were not a viable starship cargo.

A further two were covered with small piles of aluminum ingots; there weren't enough to fill even one of the trucks.

Over the last two years, the Pittsburgh-based company has trimmed its smelting operations, which produce aluminum ingot bound for the refining and fabrication process.

The port also exports most of the aluminum ingots produced in the region's four smelters.

Mold the remaining hard drive parts into aluminum ingots.

Most planes met an undignified end in portable smelters which were brought there to melt down the warplanes into aluminum ingots.

But, that revenue will be heavily from packaging, construction, wheels and primary aluminum ingots, the businesses that have historically been Reynolds' best.

Mr. Adams expects prices of aluminum ingot to tumble farther later this year, but possibly pick up by 1991.

But analysts say that Reynolds, nonetheless, remains highly vulnerable to the depressed price of aluminum ingot.

Alcoa said that the lower earnings were primarily a result of a 24 percent decline in the price of aluminum ingot on world markets.