Aluar

Infobox_Company
company_name = Aluar
company_type = Public company
foundation = 1970
location = flagicon|Argentina Puerto Madryn, Argentina
num_employees = 2.000(2006)
revenue = US$ 1.893 million (2006)
industry = aluminium
products = aluminium products, aluminium alloys
homepage = [http://www.aluar.com.ar http://www.aluar.com.ar]

Aluar is the only aluminium smelter in Argentina and one of the largest in South America. In 2006 the company produced 275.000 tonnes of aluminium. A series of expansion projects should increase production to 410 thousand tonnes in 2008.cite web
url=http://www.aluar.com.ar/us/novedad.asp?id_contenido=159
title=Enlargement project for the Puerto Madryn primary aluminium smelter production capacity
accessdate=2007-09-08.]

The company is supplied with electricity by its on-site thermoelectric station that has an installed capacity of 284 MW and from Futaleufú Hydroelectric Power Station that has an installed capacity of 472 MW.

Technology

The smelter has four reduction lines.

Lines 1 and 2 each have 200 Montecatini P-155 reduction cellscite web
url=http://www.tms.org/pubs/journals/JOM/0002/Tabereaux-0002.html
title=Alton Tabereaux - 'Prebake Cell Technology: A Global Review', JOM, 52 (2), pp 22-28.
accessdate=2007-08-19]

Line 3 has 144 Pechiney AP18 reduction cells<.

Stage 1 of Line 4 was commissioned in 2007 and comprises 168 Pechiney AP18 reduction cellsoperating at a current of 220 kA. This will increase the smelter capacity by 105 thousand tonnes. Aluar intend to extend Line 4 to 336 cells in a future expansion.

References

External links

* [http://www.aluar.com.ar Home page]