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...jungles of the French Cameroons. There the continent's first aluminum smelting plant-a $46 million complex covering 32 acres-was officially inaugurated by the French. Built by Pechiney and Ugine, France's two aluminum producers, the new Alucam complex shares the island of Edea in the Sanaga River with a new hydroelectric plant that will supply power for its battery of 208 electrolytic vats. Alucam's yearly capacity, scheduled to reach a peak 50,000 tons by 1959, will be bigger than all but two European plants, eventually account for a quarter of France...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BUSINESS ABROAD: First for Africa | 3/11/1957 | See Source »

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