Aluminerie Alouette

Aluminerie Alouette is an aluminum smelter in Sept- Îles, Quebec, Canada, on the north shore of the St. Lawrence River

After the largest expansion of the plant was completed from September 2002 to May 2005, she is now the largest aluminum smelter for the primary processing in the Americas with an annual capacity of 550,000 tons.

The construction of an aluminum smelter in Sept- Îles, Quebec, came through the completion of the hydropower plant Churchill Falls in Labrador in 1972 about. Power lines from Churchill Falls bring the energy to the Hydro-Québec transmission network, which passes near Sept- Îles, where also an important relay station of Hydro-Québec is. Due to the low electricity rates from Hydro -Québec and the good sea connections had decided in 1989 a consortium of six companies for a common aluminum smelter on the south coast of Sept- Îles. These companies were: SGF (Canada), Kobe Aluminum (Japan), Marubeni (Japan), AMAG ( Austria ), VAW ( Germany ) and Hoogovens (Netherlands).

In 2002, we began with the expansion of the plant in order to double as producing more. This Phase 2 was completed in May 2005. At maximum capacity 800 MW of electricity are needed.

Currently Alouette has five shareholders: Alcan (Canada, 40%), AMAG ( Austria, 20%), Norsk Hydro ( Norway, 20%), SGF (Canada, 13.33% ), Marubeni (Japan, 6.67% )