Aluminerie Alouette

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In 1987, at the initiative of Quebec’s Société générale de financement (SGF), an international consortium was created with a vision to build an aluminium smelter somewhere in Quebec. Thanks to its deep-water port, qualified manpower and proximity to major power grids, Sept-Îles was the obvious choice!

The setting up of Aluminerie Alouette in Sept-Iles was officially announced on September 1st, 1989. ALUMINERIE ALOUETTE produced its first tonne of “grey gold” in June 1992.

Our company’s growth has started with the Phase II expansion project, for which the green light was given in September 2002 and was completed in May 2005. Alouette Phase II was then Quebec’s largest private construction project.

With an investment of $1.4 billion, our annual production has risen from 245,000 to more than 550,000 tpy and 340 new permanent jobs have been created at the smelter. Alouette his currently employing close to 900 people and his the largest aluminium smelter in the Americas and the 5th largest in the world.

Today, the Aluminerie Alouette consortium is made up of the following five shareholders: Alcan (Canada, 40%), Austria Metall (Austria, 20%), Hydro Aluminium (Norway, 20%), SGF (Quebec, 13.33%) and Marubeni (Japan, 6.67%).