Novelis restarts Oswego aluminum plant after nine-month shutdown

Novelis said its Oswego, New York, aluminum-rolling plant restarted on June 10 after being offline for about nine months because of fires.

The plant is a major domestic supplier of aluminum sheet for U.S. automakers, including Ford, General Motors and Stellantis. The outage had created a bottleneck in a supply chain that matters especially to Ford, which uses aluminum heavily in the F-150.

The company said the facility will ramp up supply gradually and will not immediately return to full throughput.

Novelis had previously said repairs were expected to finish by the end of June 2026, but the restart came earlier than that target. Wall Street Journal and Barron's both reported the plant was back in operation on June 10.

The shutdown followed fires at the Oswego facility in September and November 2025. The restart removes one of the biggest recent disruptions to North American automotive aluminum supply, but the plant will still need time to work back toward normal production levels.