Word: pechiney
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...aluminum plant was officially opened last week near Lacq in southwestern France. Nestled at the foot of the Pyrenees on once-sleepy pasture land, the $40 million plant is the showpiece of one of France's most aggressive and fastest-growing companies: the aluminum and chemical firm of Pechiney, Europe's biggest aluminum producer. While the plant increases France's aluminum capacity by one-third, it can be run by only 350 employees...
...Pechiney moved in among the cows and centuries-old stone farmhouses of Lacq to take advantage of a huge natural-gas deposit which has attracted a whole complex of industry since it was discovered eight years ago. The company has grown so fast since the war that the amount of hydroelectric power available in Metropolitan France, of which it uses 6%, is no longer enough. Its search for additional sources of cheap power (and cheap raw materials) has also led it to Africa, where it joined an international consortium, including Olin-Mathieson, to build an aluminum plant in Cameroon, helped...