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Pierre Morin
President, Alcoa Canada
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Pierre Morin, the top-ranking leader of Alcoa in Canada, is responsible for all operations of the Alcoa Canada Primary Products plants and the Lake Charles carbon plant in Louisiana.
His experience in the industrial field spans over 25 years. Holder of a master’s degree in analytical chemistry obtained in 1980, he began his career at the Union Carbide Research Institute in Montréal. Then, from 1986 to 1988, he worked as a laboratory process chemist during the start-up of the Bécancour aluminum smelter (ABI). In the course of the following 16 years, Mr. Morin was employed by Norsk Hydro Canada where he occupied six different positions, from Chief Chemist to President and CEO. In 2004, he joined Alcoa as General Manager of the Baie-Comeau aluminum smelter and was promoted to the position of Vice-President, Operations, Primary Products Canada in 2008, and finally to his current position in September 2009.
In Québec, Alcoa Canada is comprised of the Baie-Comeau, Deschambault and Bécancour smelters, as well as the Bécancour Rod Plant. These four plants have an annual production capacity of over one million metric tons of ingots, castings, billets and aluminum rods. Because it mainly supplies the Alcoa aluminum smelter in Baie-Comeau, the Alcoa Primary Metals carbon plant in Lake Charles, Louisiana, U.S.A., is also part of Alcoa Canada. Alcoa activities generate over $1.2 billion in economic spin-offs per year in the province. Serving the aerospace, building and construction, and commercial transportation markets, Alcoa Canada operates fabricating plants in Québec, Ontario and Alberta. In 2009, Alcoa Canada, which employs more than 3960 workers, posted over $2 billion in sales.
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