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January 15, 2008
Alcoa Canada, Proud Partner of the Exhibition Urbanopolis at the Musée de la civilisation
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Québec City, January 15, 2008 – Alcoa Canada is proud to pursue the very special connection it has developed with the Musée de la civilisation in Québec City. More particularly, it is proud to have the opportunity to bring this connection to a peak with the exhibition Urbanopolis, presented in the framework of Québec City’s 400th anniversary celebrations.
In our view, this collaboration is particularly timely, since it sets out the ties between man and the city, between activity and place of residence, at the interface of to do and to be. “Such dynamics are specially close to us,” underlined Pierre Després, Vice President, Public and Government Affairs, at Alcoa Canada. “The fact is that the economic activity generated by our plants on the sites where they are present plays a determining role not only in how our employees live, but also the communities where they reside and flourish.”
The cities of Baie-Comeau, Bécancour and Deschambault have their own urban fabric, where human activity is etched in the environment. Every city offers its own wealth, a unique visage, its own quality of life. There are as many ways to inhabit a city as there are cities. This is another notion illustrated by Urbanopolis.
The city is also a creature born of imagination, of becoming, of change. The adaptation of man to his environment, and vice-versa, is never done, never complete, forever changing. “A city such as Québec can be part of UNESCO’s World Heritage List while remaining resolutely contemporary, open to the most innovative influences and to the most fertile imagination. And it will surprise no one to hear that we imagine cities, as well as the future, in aluminum...,” continued Pierre Després.
As Québec City celebrates its 400th anniversary, the Musée de la civilisation and Alcoa invite you to celebrate everything the city may be and everything it may become. All the more reason to drop in... We’re waiting for you!
About Alcoa Canada
In addition to producing primary aluminum Alcoa Canada operates fabricating plants serving the aerospace, automotive, food packaging, and construction markets. Its facilities and plants are located mainly in Québec and Ontario.
Alcoa Canada Primary Metals (ACPM) is comprised of the Baie-Comeau, Bécancour and Deschambault smelters, as well as the Bécancour Rod Plant. These four plants, all of which are ISO 900: 2000 and 14001 certified, have an annual production capacity of over one million metric tons of ingots, castings, billets and aluminum rods. ACPM employs close to 3,600 people and its activities generate over $1.5 billion in economic spin-offs annually in the province.
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