Beautifully engraved SPECIMEN certificate from the
Kaiser Aluminum & Chemical Corporation. This historic document was printed by the Jeffries Banknote Company in the 1950's and has an
ornate border around it with a vignette of an allegorical woman. This item has the printed signatures of the Company’s President and Secretary.
Certificate Vignette
HOUSTON, Texas, February 12, 2002 -- Kaiser Aluminum Corporation (NYSE:KLU) said today that the company and its operating subsidiary Kaiser Aluminum & Chemical Corporation and certain of its wholly owned subsidiaries have filed voluntary petitions under Chapter 11 of the Federal Bankruptcy Code in the United States Bankruptcy Court for the District of Delaware.
Kaiser Aluminum Corporation (NYSE:KLU), operating through its wholly owned subsidiary Kaiser Aluminum & Chemical Corporation, is a leading producer and marketer of alumina, primary aluminum, flat-rolled products, and engineered products.
The company operates in all principal aspects of the aluminum business. It mines bauxite, the major aluminum-bearing ore ... refines bauxite into alumina, the intermediate material ... and produces primary aluminum and fabricated aluminum products which it sells to customers directly or through distributors.
Kaiser manufactures aluminum products for the aerospace, automotive, other transportation, electronics, communications, consumer durables, marine, sporting goods, and industrial markets
-- to name a few.
Kaiser Aluminum has 20 major manufacturing facilities located in North America, Australia, Jamaica, Ghana, and Wales. In 2000, it had approximately 7,800 employees, assets of more than $3 billion, and annual sales of more than $2 billion.