Quebec Aluminum plants to get 85M technology investment

Part of an $85 million investment in cutting-edge technology that will increase lower cost aluminum production.

This interesting article is about the Canadian energy industry. Alfa Laval manufactures heat transfer equipment that reduces energy use in materials refining and manufacturing operations. Alfa Laval also manufactures centrifugal separation and filtration able to reduce water pollution and emissions in resource-extraction. 

 

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“…DESCHAMBAULT, Que. — The Federal government is investing $10 million in an Alcoa aluminum plant as part of a $85 million project that will support more than 520 jobs. 

 The project will be completed by the end of 2021. 

 Alcoa’s Deschambault Aluminerie plant in Deschambault-Grondines, Que. will acquire cutting-edge technology that will increase aluminum production at a lower cost. 

 Aluminerie, operating since 1992, was acquired by Alcoa in 1998. It houses the Aluminum Centre of Excellence, a training hub for Alcoa employees from all over the world and it’s a centre for the development, transfer and standardization of best practices in manufacturing management. 

 This investment is being made through the Strategic Innovation Fund. 

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