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12 unusual facts about ALCAN


Alcan

It then became the world's largest aluminium manufacturer in 2004 after acquiring the Pechiney Group, the fourth player in worldwide production and fabrication of aluminium and the number 3 in packaging.

Alma, Quebec

The area became an important industrial center during the 1920s and 1930s with the construction of a hydro-electrical dam on the Grande-Décharge River, a paper mill (Price) and an aluminum smelting plant (Alcan), all of which are still in activity today.

Andrew Ziolkowski

After finishing school he worked as a Process Worker for Alcan in Granville and as a Steelworks Tradesman's Assistant for BHP in Wollongong.

British Aluminium

The company was bought again by the Canadian-based Alcan in 1982.

British Columbia Liberal Party

It expanded the highway system, extended the Pacific Great Eastern Railway, and negotiated the Alcan Agreement, which facilitated construction of the Kenny Dam.

Churchill Falls Generating Station

Its officials made pitches to large industrial power users, but aluminium companies Alcan, Alcoa and British Aluminium all rejected the possibility of building smelters in Labrador.

In 1953 British Newfoundland Development Corporation (Brinco) was formed by the Rothschilds and six partners: two paper companies: Bowater and Anglo-Newfoundland; a manufacturer, English Electric; and mining concerns Rio Tinto, Anglo American and Frobisher.

Dan Waters

Waters worked at the Bracebridge Alcan plant before 1990, and now operates an auto repair and service shop in Baysville.

Mapoon, Queensland

In the 1950s the discovery of bauxite on the Western Cape area saw mining leases for large areas given to Comalco and Alcan.

Roger Gaudry

He was a member of the Board of Directors of the following companies: Connaught Laboratories Ltd., CDC Life Sciences Inc., Bank of Montreal, Alcan, Hoechst Canada, S.K.W. Canada Ltd., Bio-Recherche Ltée,

Ruscote

Ltd. or Alcan Industries Ltd. pig and rolled Aluminium factory was opened in 1931 on land the firm had bought in 1929 on the east of the Southam road, in the then hamlet of Hardwick.

Wheaton Science Products

Wheaton Science Products is a subsidiary of Alcan based in Millville, New Jersey in the United States.


Action démocratique du Québec candidates, 2007 Quebec provincial election

He worked in a paper mill after graduating and later moved to Kitimat, British Columbia, where he worked at an Alcan plant.

Arvida, Quebec

Its name is derived from the name of its founder, Arthur Vining Davis, president of the Alcoa aluminum company (later Alcan).

Bougie

Jacques Bougie (born 1947), Manager and CEO of Alcan (1979–2000), mentioned in relation to Manitoba general election, 1981

Delta King

Delta King served as home to hundreds of men who were employees of the being constructed ALCAN Aluminum plant and the Kemano Dam power project in the early 1950s in Kitimat on the northern coast of British Columbia.

Émile Lauvrière

A doctor in Literature specializing in the English domain, he wrote a dissertation on Edgar Allan Poe, entitled Edgar Poe, un génie morbide later published under the title Edgar Poe, sa vie et son œuvre ; étude de psychologie pathologique (Paris: Alcan, 1904).

Gardner Canal

The Gardner Canal is important for being the location of the Kemano generating station of the Nechako Diversion, which was built to supply power for an Alcan aluminum smelter in Kitimat.

Snow Trac

Approximately 200 Snow Tracs ended up at the Canadian National Railway, and Snow Tracs were also located at each of the microwave sites along the length of the ALCAN (Alaska Canadian Highway).

The Milepost

It was first published in 1949 as a guide about traveling along the Alaska Highway, often locally referred to as "The ALCAN".

World Council of Indigenous Peoples

Corporations which the WCIP lists as particularly damaging are: Amax, Alcan, Coca Cola, United Fruit, Volkswagen, Sonya, Rio Tinto Zinc, ITT, Mitsubishi, Noranda and BP.