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[[Reynolds Consumer Products]] went public with an initial public offering on [[NASDAQ]] under the ticker symbol REYN on Friday, January 31, 2020.<ref>{{cite news| title=Reynolds shakes off market jitters with year's first big IPO| first=Joshua| last=Franklin| date=January 30, 2020| url=https://www.reuters.com/article/us-reynolds-cnsmr-ipo-idUSKBN1ZT34G| website=[[Reuters]]| access-date=October 19, 2020}}</ref>
==Facilities==
In 1945 a '''research laboratory at [[Glen Cove, New York|Glen Cove]] (1945-)''', together with a corporate library and 150-seat auditorium was established in Winfield Hall of the former [[Woolworth Estate]]. To be manned by 150 researchers and technicians.<ref>{{cite magazine |magazine=Steel |volume=116 |issue=13 |date=26 March 1945 |title=Company Established Research Laboratory |page=144 |url=https://archive.org/details/sim_industry-week_1945-03-26_116_13/page/144/mode/1up}}</ref> The property had been with Reynolds since 1929 and was repurposed into a business school for women in 1963.
In June 1945 construction of a '''rolling mill in Mexico (1945-)''' was first announced. A new company, the ''Reynolds Internacionale de Mexico'' was established, with J. Louis Reynolds acting as president. Initially to produce aluminum plate and foil, the plant was envisioned from the beginning to eventually include forging, extrusion, rod, bar, cable and powder and paste for paint, and also to process lead and tin.<ref>{{cite magazine |magazine=Steel |volume=116 |issue=23 |date=4 June 1945 |title=Reynolds Metals Plans Aluminum Plant in Mexico |page=102 |url=https://archive.org/details/sim_industry-week_1945-06-04_116_23/page/102/mode/1up}}</ref>
With the acquisition of the ''Aluminum Products Company'' in November 1945. a company specializing in the production of cooking utensils, a '''stamping plant at [[LaGrange, Illinois|LaGrange]] (1946-)''', another '''stamping plant at [[Lemont, Illinois|Lemont]] (1946-)''' and a tandem '''rolling mill at Lagrange (1946-)''' were added. An expansion program of a few hundred thousand dollars was immediately put into effect and employment was to be increased. This acquisition followed a few months after Reynolds entered the field of cooking utensils with a production line in the Louisville plant.<ref>{{cite magazine |magazine=Steel |volume=117 |issue=23 |date=3 December 1945 |title=Reynolds Metals Buys Aluminum Products Co. |page=105 |url=https://archive.org/details/sim_industry-week_1945-12-03_117_23/page/105/mode/1up}}</ref>
The '''extrusion plant at [[Louisville, Kentucky|Louisville]]''' (Plant No. 8), featuring presses with circular extrusion dies of 10 inches diameter, turning out shapes up to 12.5 square feet cross section, 50 feet length and 350 pounds weight. Ten oil-fired open-hearth reverberatory 45,000 pound furnaces to produce ingots and a number of soaking ("normalizing") furnaces to allow controlled heat treatment of (alloy) ingots. In late 1945, one 3850 and one 2240 ton press was in operation and new units of 1650, 2750 and 5500 tons were being installed. Hollow ingots were used for tubular extrusions, but limited to a minimum thickness of 2 inches, so that additional cold drawing equipment was used to finish extruded pipes if necessary. Cold drawing could also be applied to extruded bars and rods. 20-page article in: <ref>{{cite magazine |magazine=Steel |volume=117 |issue=23 |date=3 December 1945 |title=Extruding Aluminum |page=123 |url=https://archive.org/details/sim_industry-week_1945-12-03_117_23/page/123/mode/1up?q=%22Louisville%22}}</ref>
Reynolds Metals Corp. Engineering Building at 5th and Cary streets, [[Richmond, Virginia|Richmond]].<ref>{{cite magazine |magazine=Steel |volume=117 |issue=23 |date=3 December 1945 |title=(advertisement) |page=222 |url=https://archive.org/details/sim_industry-week_1945-12-03_117_23/page/222/mode/1up}}</ref>
In January 1946 Reynolds leased for a 5-year term the $6,750,000 war surplus '''extrusion plant at [[Grand Rapids, Michigan|Grand Rapids]] (1946-)'''.<ref>{{cite magazine |magazine=Steel |volume=118 |issue=3 |date=21 January 1946 |title=Present, Past and Pending |page=51 |url=https://archive.org/details/sim_industry-week_1946-01-21_118_3/page/51/mode/1up?q=%22Reynolds%22}}</ref>
In January 1946, the '''alumina refinery at [[Hurricane Creek (Arkansas)|Hurricane Creek]] (1946-)''' (precisely<ref>{{cite news|newspaper=Hope Star |url=https://archive.org/details/hope-star-1941-08-09/mode/1up?q=alumina |date=9 August 1941 |title=Bauxite Gets Aluina Plant |page=1}}</ref> at {{coord|34.58287|-92.51357|name=Hurricane Creek refinery}}) was leased for 5 years with option to purchase. At the time the world's largest with a capacity of 1,500,000,000 pounds per year. This acquisition resulted in an 8-fold increase in alumina production capacity corporation-wide, giving Reynolds a nearly 50% share of alumina production in the United States.<ref>{{cite magazine |magazine=Steel |volume=118 |issue=3 |date=21 January 1946 |title=Two Aluminum Plants Leased by Reynolds |page=71 |url=https://archive.org/details/sim_industry-week_1946-01-21_118_3/page/71/mode/1up}}</ref> Built for $39,330,523 as [[Defense Plant Corporation|Plancor]] 226-X and operated by Alcoa during the war, the plant consisted of 50 buildings on 465 acres of land. Besides the Bayer process plant it included a sinter plant, a 3,000,000 pounds per year synthetic cryolite plant (not used during the war) and a 40,000,000 pounds per year aluminum flouride plant.<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=0Ay7T94evlIC&pg=PA54 |title=Aluminum Plants and Facilities |author=Congress Surplus Property Board |date=September 21, 1945 |page=54}}</ref> After 3 years under lease the plant was bought in 1949. It was expanded by 110,000 tons to 730,000 tons in 1951-52 (todo: contradicts prior sources). It used the Combination process on locally mined ore with imported bauxite used only to condition the raw materials feed as needed.<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=xeN3YLFuUxoC&pg=RA1-PA1 |title=Materials Survey Aluminum, Compiled for the Office of Defense Mobilization |author=Department of Commerce, Business and Defense Service Administration |date=November 1956 |chapter=III: Structure of the United States Aluminum Industry |page=1}}</ref>
In January 1946 Reynolds leased for 5 years with purchase option the '''reduction plant at [[Jones Mill, Arkansas|Jones Mill]] (1946-)''' (precisely<ref name="jonesmill1">{{cite news|newspaper=Hope Star |url=https://archive.org/details/hope-star-1942-07-17/page/n4/mode/1up?q=%22Jones+Mill%22 |date=17 July 1942 |page=5 |title=Arkansas Aluminum Plant to Start Production This Week}}</ref> at {{coord|34.43699|-92.8870|name=Jones mill reduction plant}}), 20 miles from the Hurricane Creek refinery. It had a capacity of 72,000,000 pounds per year, adding to Reynolds 165,000,000 pounds per year from Listerhill and Longview.<ref>{{cite magazine |magazine=Steel |volume=118 |issue=3 |date=21 January 1946 |title=Two Aluminum Plants Leased by Reynolds |page=71 |url=https://archive.org/details/sim_industry-week_1946-01-21_118_3/page/71/mode/1up}}</ref> Built for $29,258,349 as [[Defense Plant Corporation|Plancor]] 226-K, consisting of 4 potlines, operated during the war by Alcoa, it had the capacity to manufacture 57,600,000 pounds per year of carbon electrodes and included a 78MW natural gas fired power plant which was capable of powering two of the potlines.<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=0Ay7T94evlIC&pg=PA57 |title=Aluminum Plants and Facilities |author=Congress Surplus Property Board |date=September 21, 1945 |page=57}}</ref> The first units began production on July 18, 1942.<ref name="jonesmill1"/>
In March 1946 Reynolds leased the '''rolling mill at [[McCook, Illinois|McCook]] (1946-)''', another war surplus plant.<ref>{{cite magazine |magazine=Steel |volume=118 |issue=10 |date=11 March 1946 |title=Present, Past and Pending |page=63 |url=https://archive.org/details/sim_industry-week_1946-03-11_118_10/page/63/mode/1up?q=%22Reynolds%22}}</ref> Built as [[Defense Plant Corporation|Plancor]] 652, it was largely identical to Plancor 1061 in [[Trentwood, Washington|Trentwood]] which went to [[Kaiser Aluminum]] after the war. There were 34 27,000-pound reverberatory remelt furnaces, a 120-inch and a 96-inch reversing mill for the production of 0.75 inch "slabs", followed by a continuous 5-stand 80-inch hot mill for plates and sheet, followed by four cold mills, two of which were 72-inch 2-stand tandem and two were 72-inch single-stand mills, followed by a 12-stand flattening mill with ten stands of 84 inches and two stands of 110 inches.<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=0Ay7T94evlIC&pg=PA61 |title=Aluminum Plants and Facilities |author=Congress Surplus Property Board |date=September 21, 1945 |page=61}}</ref>
First announced in May 1951, the '''[[San Patricio County, Texas|San Patricio]] reduction plant''' in [[Ingleside, Texas|Ingleside]] at a total cost of $80,000,000 was to have a natural gas fueled power plant of 78 internal combustion engines totaling 256,300hp driving 176MW of direct current generators. Of those, 40 were Cooper-Bessemer type LSV supercharging 3,700hp 16-cylinder 4-cycle engines with one 2,500kw DC generator each and 38 were General Motors model 16-358X 2,850hp 2-cycle engines with a 2,000kw DC generator each (the first installation of the engine model). Natural gas consumption of the power plant was expected to be 1,000,000cuft per hour and the rated output of the plant 150,000,000 pounds per year.<ref>{{cite news|newspaper=San Patricio County News |url=https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth718638/m1/1/zoom/?q=%22san%20patricio%22&resolution=2.4676846460700648&lat=3212.9405640876334&lon=2923.9985948576846 |title=Reynolds Building Largest Gas-Burning Engine Plant In World At County Side |date=May 24, 1951}}</ref>
todo: reduction plants at [[Listerhill, Alabama|Listerhill]], [[Longview, Washington|Longview]], [[Arkadelphia, Arkansas|Arkadelphia]], [[Troutdale, Oregon|Troutdale]]
todo: refinery at Corpus Christi.
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