Growth Markets
January 6, 2026
Novelis' Oswego plant sees management shakeup
Written by Stephanie Ritenbaugh
Leadership is changing at Novelis aluminum plant in Oswego County, N.Y., after major fires in the fall damaged the facility.
The shakeup was first reported by local media.
Plant Manager Kristen Nelson and several other members of management parted ways, according to Oswego County News Now.
Novelis did not immediately respond to AMU for a request for comment.
The Oswego plant has been partially offline since Sept. 16 when a fire shut down the hot mill.
Another significant fire broke out on Nov. 20. Novelis and Ford Motor Co., a major customer of the plant, issued a joint statement on Nov. 21 stating the cold mill and heat treatment operations were back up and running.
The facility is the largest producer of automotive alloys in North America and a key supplier to automakers. More than 90% of the site’s projected 2025 flat-rolled product output was dedicated to automotive body sheet and structural sheet, with a small fraction for the beverage can market, according to estimates from CRU Group, AMU’s parent company.
Novelis’ Oswego location is the company’s largest, wholly owned fabrication facility in North America. Novelis is a subsidiary of Mumbai, India-based Hindalco Industries Limited.
The company has invested heavily in the plant, including about $130 million first announced in 2021. That money was aimed at adding 65,000 metric tons per year (t/yr) of hot mill rolling capacity dedicated to the automotive and specialty markets as well as at improving finishing capability for sheet. At the beginning of the year, CRU estimated Oswego’s total capacity would reach about 560,000 t/yr in 2025, with part of that increase tied to this long-running upgrade.
CRU Group estimates the site accounts for roughly 40% of total aluminum auto body sheet production capacity in the US and Canada.
