Anglesey Aluminium is jointly owned by Rio Tinto Alcan and Kaiser Aluminium and was formed in 1971.
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Alcan runs an aluminium smelter in Northumberland, but has recently announced that it will look to sell or shut the plant.
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This is largely related to the company's purchase of Canadian aluminium giant Alcan in 2007.
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Alcan, a Canadian aluminium company, says it will help villagers in Bangladesh to remove arsenic from their water supplies.
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Competition concerns have already scuppered one big deal in the industry: the three-way aluminium merger proposed by Alcan, Pechiney and Algroup in 1999.
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