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Alcoa Lingotes Castings. (Around the World).


SPAIN--Alcoa Lingotes Castings (Alcoa Alcoa

U.S. company, the world's largest producer of aluminum. Established in Pittsburgh, Pa., in 1888, it adopted the name Aluminum Co. of America in 1907. Alcoa introduced aluminum foil in 1910 and found uses for aluminum in the emerging aviation and automobile industries.
, Inc.) will construct a new plant in Medina del Campo Medina del Campo (māthē`nä thĕl käm`pō), town (1990 pop. 19,965), Valladolid prov., central Spain, in Castile-León. It is a communications center and agricultural market with food-processing industries.  Spain Spain, Span. España (āspä`nyä), officially Kingdom of Spain, constitutional monarchy (2005 est. pop. 40,341,000), 194,884 sq mi (504,750 sq km), including the Balearic and Canary islands, SW Europe. , which will manufacture aluminum automotive castings. The company will invest 48 million euros in the plant, which will create 200 jobs.
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Publication:Modern Casting
Article Type:Brief Article
Geographic Code:4EUUK
Date:Jul 1, 2002
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