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Aluminum smelter at Sept-Îles, Quebec, Canada, on the North Shore of the Gulf of St. Lawrence. Aluminum is a soft and lightweight metal with a dull silvery appearance, due to a thin layer of oxidation that forms quickly when it is exposed to air. ...
Sept-Îles (French for Seven Islands)is a city in the Côte-Nord region of eastern Quebec, Canada. ...
, Motto: Je me souviens (French: I remember) Capital Quebec City Largest city Montreal Official languages French Government - Lieutenant-Governor Pierre Duchesne - Premier Jean Charest (PLQ) Federal representation in Canadian Parliament - House seats 75 - Senate seats 24 Confederation July 1, 1867 (1st) Area Ranked 2nd - Total 1,542,056 km² (595...
The Gulf of Saint Lawrence, the worlds largest estuary, is the outlet of North Americas Great Lakes via the Saint Lawrence River into the Atlantic Ocean. ...
With the successful start-up of a of a major expansion in 2005, the Alouette Aluminum Smelter, at 550,000 metric tonnes capacity per year, became the largest primary aluminum smelter in the Americas.
The construction of an aluminum smelter at Sept-Îles, Quebec, was made possibile with the completion of the Churchill Falls Hydro Electric project in Labrador in 1972. Electrical transmission lines from Churchill Falls, carrying power to the Hydro-Quebec power grid, passed close to the city of Sept-Iles and a major Hydro-Quebec sub-station (the Arnaud Station) was constructed on the outskirts of the city. In 1989, attracted by Hydro-Quebec's low power costs, and the excellent seaport facilities at Sept-Îles, a consortium of six companies: SGF (Canada), Kobe Aluminum (Japan), Marubeni (Japan), AMAG ( Austria), VAW (Germany) and Hoogovens (Netherlands) joined to build a 215,000 tonne per year smelter on Pointe Noire, located on the southern side of Sept-Îles Bay. Churchill Falls are waterfalls, 245 ft (75 m) high, on the Churchill River in Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada. ...
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In 2002, plans were approved to expand the smelter by more than double its original capacity. This phase 2 project was completed in September 2005. The Alouette Smelter uses 800 MW electricity at maximum production capacity.
The five Alouette Shareholders are presently: Alcan (Canada 40%),AMAG (Austria Metall AG, 20%), Hydro Aluminium (Norway, 20%), SGF (Canada, 13.33%), Marubeni (Japan, 6.67%)
External links Coordinates: 50°9′16″N, 66°27′4″W Map of Earth showing lines of latitude (horizontally) and longitude (vertically), Eckert VI projection; large version (pdf, 1. ...
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