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RIO TINTO ALCAN COMPANY PROFILE
COMPANY PROFILE Rio Tinto Alcan Rio Tinto Alcan is the aluminium product group of Rio Tinto, a leading international mining company involved in each stage of metal and mineral production. Building on more than a century of experience and expertise, Rio Tinto Alcan is a global leader in the aluminium industry. We are one of the world’s largest producers of high quality bauxite, alumina and aluminium worldwide and our AP Technology™ is the industry benchmark. Our leadership is reinforced by our: • Access to the largest and best quality bauxite reserves in the industry; • Benchmark smelting technology; and • Enviable hydropower position, which delivers significant competitive advantages in today’s carbon constrained world.
AP Technology™ Rio Tinto Alcan’s AP Technology™ surpasses all records for reliability, energy efficiency, sustainability, and productivity. It is the cleanest, most competitive smelting technology commercially available, offering the lowest emission levels. In fact, Rio Tinto Alcan’s latest AP Technology™ offers the lowest full economic cost aluminium smelting solutions in the industry. Our cutting-edge reduction technology now includes the commercially available AP60 and APXe cells, the first providing a very high amperage solution for high productivity needs and the second meeting low energy consumption requirements. Meanwhile, Rio Tinto Alcan has maintained development work and optimization of the previous AP18 and AP30 cells platforms and today can offer highly competitive smelter solutions for greenfield or brownfield applications utilising these families of cells.
Cover image: Arvida Smelter, AP60 Technological Center.
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Smelter technology transfer: the world reference
Your project Fully commissioned
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R&D
Engineering and industrualisation
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Project technical assistance
Operation set-up and start-up
Smelter business performance
Technology continuous improvement
AP Technology™Improvement cycle
Our product, your project
Smelter technology transfer: the world reference From pot design to global project execution and operational excellence, our AP Technology™ solutions are the industry benchmark for delivering optimal value.
Maximising the return on your technology investment At Rio Tinto Alcan, we’ve been operating smelters around the world for more than a century. We’ve spent the last 30-plus years developing and implementing our AP Technology™ solutions, at an average of one smelter project per year. This indepth knowledge and experience allows you to maximise your project’s value and bankability using AP Technology™.
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More than process technology Over the decades, constant R&D and trials in our own plants have maintained our technological edge. We’ve learned that solutions integration is key to reaching the highest level of project and operational performance. The AP Technology™ delivery integrates construction and operational requirements. It includes an optimised plant layout and encompasses all areas of the smelter. Our documentation package enables you to meet your project performance and reliability targets. It’s supported by AP Technology™ experts who work with your teams at all project stages, from feasibility studies to detailed engineering, construction, commissioning, Operations Readiness Planning (ORP), start-up and operations.
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AP Technology™ offer
Greenfield or creeping projects Our AP Technology™ teams support all sizes and types of projects. For both new and existing facilities, our methodologies and technologies maximise your project’s outcome and minimise its cost. For creeping projects, we’ve developed a comprehensive approach to execute rapidly and keep risks under control. Many smelters around the world have benefited from this approach including several of our own.
Continuous improvement, superior value Our dedicated R&D and industrialisation teams work together to continuously improve the AP Technology™ offer. From one project to the next, we build on the lessons learned and leverage our diverse industrialisation initiatives to drive breakthroughs and enhancements. AP Technology™ solutions reduce both CAPEX and OPEX, minimising the full economic cost of your project. It optimises value right from the early basic engineering designs and concepts through to the detailed studies and construction works. We also ensure a smooth start-up with efficient support from our experts. The AP Technology™ package enables effective standardisation and change management.
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Rio Tinto Alcan’s AP Technology solutions: The world’s most productive smelter technology
2013: Start-up of AP60 pots at the historical center of aluminium development in Canada A new milestone for reduction technology has been recently reached with the successful startup of the Arvida AP60 Technological Center in Jonquière, Quebec, Canada. With the demonstration of AP60 at Arvida Technology Center and APXe at Laboratoire de Recherche des Fabrications (LRF) in France, Rio Tinto Alcan makes available high productivity and low energy consumption technologies to its partners and customers, and thereby offering the most productive, cost effective and cleanest smelting technology in the world.
Technology sales department 725, rue Aristide Bergès - BP 7 38341 Voreppe Cedex France T +33 (0)4 76 57 85 00 For more information about Rio Tinto Alcan and its AP Technology solutions, visit www.riotintoalcan.com ap-technology.com
AP60/APXe: the reduction technology of choice for your project!
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For more information about Rio Tinto Alcan
725, rue Aristide Bergès - BP 7
and its AP Technology solutions, visit
38341 Voreppe Cedex
www.riotintoalcan.com
France
ap-technology.com
T +33 (0)4 76 57 85 00
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