Alcan
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Alcan was a Canadian mining company and aluminum manufacturer. It was founded in 1902 as the Northern Aluminum Company, renamed Aluminum Company of Canada in 1925, and Alcan Aluminum in 1966. It was rebranded once more in 2001, to Alcan Incorporated. During that time, it grew to become one of the world's largest aluminum manufacturers.
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- Instance of
- enterprise
- Headquarters
- Montreal
- Legal form
- joint-stock company
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- Commons category
- Alcan
- inception
- 1925-00-00
- dissolved, abolished or demolished date
- 2007-00-00
- archives at
- Canadian Centre for Architecture
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Encyclopedic overview
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- History
- Acquisition
- Name history
- Alcan (Canadian operations)
- Aluminium (holding company)
- Single company after 1995
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Alcan was a Canadian mining company and aluminum manufacturer. It was founded in 1902 as the Northern Aluminum Company, renamed Aluminum Company of Canada in 1925, and Alcan Aluminum in 1966. It was rebranded once more in 2001, to Alcan Incorporated. During that time, it grew to become one of the world's largest aluminum manufacturers.
Alcan was purchased by Australian-British multinational Rio Tinto for $38 billion in 2007, becoming Rio Tinto Alcan Inc. in 2008. It was headquartered in Montreal, in its Maison Alcan complex.
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