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End of year closing
|  | IHA will be closed to researchers from Friday the 23rd to Friday the 30th of December 2011 inclusive.
We wish you a pleasant Christmas and good New Year holidays!
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Online since : December 19, 2011
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ANR Crealu First Workshop
 | | Aluminium, a Material for Innovation and Creation. New Sources and Crossed Insights
Proceeding from the French National Research Agency founded CREALU project – Creation and Aluminium. From newly discovered industrial material to heritage object: invention, innovation and markets (19th-20th centuries) – this two days workshop aims at offering an overview of the new sources available for the study of alumina, aluminium and its alloys, considering their production as well as their main areas of applications. This exploration into sources will allow identifying dynamics and actors of innovation and creation, which are sometimes little known or even not known at all. The question of the development and publication of archival sources will be considered in a new perspective thanks to digital processes. This first CREALU workshop will also highlight the connections between unknown technical, archival and documentary collections in order to question the notion of heritage, particularly when this notion applies to technical innovation, but also to confront innovative technical objects and archives in a historical perspective. Collectors, anthropologists, museum professionals, historians specialized in the history of technical heritage will analyse the contribution of artefacts collection to the history of innovation.
Maison méditerranéenne des sciences de l’homme,
Aix-en-Provence, France
Salle Paul-Albert Février
6-7 September 2011
If you want to know more, please visit the Maison Méditerranéenne des Sciences de l'Homme's website.
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Online since : September 01, 2011
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« Salindres-Rousson en images »
 | | Realised by the French « Association pour la recherche et l'étude de l'histoire industrielle de Salindres (Arehis) », the publication « Salindres-Rousson en images » offers notably a large sample of pictures about the Pechiney plant of Salindres and the social life organised around the plant.
Should you want to purchase this book or to obtain further information, please consult the website of the Arehis Association : http://www.arehis.fr
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Online since : June 29, 2011
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Call for historical records on Bicycle and Aluminium
 | | Project organised by the Crealu research group in partnership with Musée d’art et d’industrie de Saint-Etienne
Aluminium in Bicycle, a part of the Crealu research project
The Créalu research project–“Creation and Aluminium: invention, innovation, markets (XIX-XXIth centuries)”-, which covers the metal’s cycle, from its discovery as a new industrial material through to its assimilation as heritage object, has chosen to dedicate one of its avenues of research on aluminium to the bicycle. The project is managed by the Centre de recherches historiques (EHESS/CNRS) and financed by the French National Research Agency. Créalu is bringing together the CRH, the Institute for the History of Aluminium, the Paris IV Sorbonne University, The University of Provence and Toulouse 2 University. To carry this project to fruition, the creation of a records collection dedicated to the applications of aluminium within the bicycle industry has been decided. These records will further enrich the collections of the Saint-Etienne Art and Industry Museum. A partnership is currently being concluded between the Institute for the History of Aluminium and the Museum, to collect, digitalize and preserve the records.
Purpose and practical details
Inventory
- Manufacturers of bicycles, components, and accessories in aluminium and its alloys
- Manufacturers using components in aluminium and aluminium alloys in their bicycles
events promoting the use of aluminium in bicycles: competitions, prizes, fairs, etc.
Collect
- Historical records on manufacturers, from the end of 19th century until today. Trade journals, directions for use, technical and commercial notes, advertisements, etc.
- Information on records groups (archives of manufacturers) and on public and private objects collections
- New oral and written sources (studies, surveys, testimonies, firms chronologies, etc.)
How?
- Historical records may be collected for lending or donation
- They will be digitalized and catalogued in the Saint-Etienne Museum of Art and Industry and Institute for the History of Aluminium documentary databases
- Lent records will be given back to their owners ; donated records will become part of the Museum's public collections
Contact
Jenny Piquet
Institute for the history of aluminium
Immeuble Le Signac ZAC des Barbanniers
1, avenue du général de Gaulle
92230 Gennevilliers - France
Tel : +33 (0)1 49 64 00
Web : www.histalu.org
Email : crealu@histalu.org
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Online since : June 01, 2011
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"Alumina and Industrial Risk", an historical view on Hungary’s Red Sludge Crisis.
| | An online article from Philippe Mioche, Professor of Contemporary History, Provence University, Aix-Marseille (France).
Philippe Mioche, specialist in metallurgical History, comes back in this article on the Industrial Catastrophe which arrived in the alumina production plant in Ajka, a town about 100 miles from Budapest (Hungary), in October 2010.
He proposes an historical perspective about the environmental stakes bound to the alumina production and of the discharge of red sludge those industrial residues rich in iron oxide.
The history of the plant of Gardanne, main site of alumina production of Rio Tinto Alcan group (former Pechiney) in France, offers an overview of the crisis, the mobilisations and the compromises, which act around this question.
Through the contemporary evolution of the Gardanne plant and thanks to a ground investigation in former industrial sites of the agglomeration of Marseille, Philippe Mioche tries to evaluate the actual environmental impacts of a secular activity of alumina production in the South-East of the France.
Article consultable here, only in French.
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Online since : April 01, 2011
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Publication of number 44-45 of the Journal of History of Aluminium
 | | The number 44-45 of the Journal of History of Aluminium has been published.
The summary of this issue is as follows:
Simon Fieschi, “The Latest Thing in Postcards!” Françoise Valette’s Collection of Aluminium Postcards
Claire Leymonerie, Jérôme Pellissier-Tanon , Very Close to the Pots: the Foremen in Aluminium Smelters (1950s - 1960s)
Philippe Mioche, Images from the Largest Alumina Plant in Europe in 1913: Alusuisse in Saint-Louis-des-Aygalades
Ludovic Cailluet, Matthias Kipping, Ménage à trois: Alcan in Spain, 1950s to 1980s
Prosper Mouak, Aluminium and the London Metal Exchange: the Institutional and Financial Specificities of a Futures Market
Didier Bensadon, Organisational Analysis and Management Toll at Pechiney Ugine Kuhlmann: the Audit and Consolidated Accounts Department’s “Grey Brochure” (1971-1982)
To order this issue and/or to subscribe to the Journal of History of Aluminium, download the subscription form here.
Enjoy your reading !
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Online since : February 11, 2011
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History of the 3C process
 | | Paul Crouzet, former engineer of Pechiney from 1960 to 1992 and as from 1974, Manager of the Engineering Unit (successively called SCAL Engineering, Cegedur Pechiney Engineering and finally Pechiney Aluminium Engineering) has just finalised a book on the history of the 3C Process (Continuous Casting between Cylinders process).
This book, written in French, with bilingual French and English summaries, was realised within the working group “3C Casting” animated by IHA.
Should you want to purchase this book, please place an order on the website www.lulu.com
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Online since : December 04, 2009
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Publication relatives to the scientific works of Charles Crussard (1916-2008)
 | | Various papers written by Charles Crussard relating to his scientific works were collected and commented by Jacques Friedel, Jean Philibert, Jean Plateau and Gilles Pomey.
Included in this book, the chapter IV sets out Charles Crussard’s view of the Pechiney R and D management from approximately 1963 to 1983 (extract of an oral testimony realised within the framework of IHA)
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Online since : December 04, 2009
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Collection Jean-Albert Grégoire - Institut pour l'histoire de l'aluminium
| | Two major events happened in 2009 for the future of the collection of cars and objects constituted by the engineer Jean-Albert Gregoire.
Firstly, IHA, which had been the manager of the Collection, became its owner through an agreement concluded in June 2009 with Jean-Philippe Puig, Chairman of Aluminium Pechiney. Following this change of ownership, the collection, which was named “Collection Aluminium Pechiney - Jean-Albert Grégoire”, has been renamed “Collection Jean-Albert Grégoire - Institute for the History of Aluminium”.
Secondly, on the 9th of July, the President of IHA, Maurice Laparra, signed a convention of deposit of and for the vehicles and the mechanical objects and parts of the Collection with the “City of Automobile” in Mulhouse, France. This convention replaces that which was signed in 2001 with the Museum of Le Mans ( Musée des 24 Heures-Circuit de la Sarthe).
The transfer of the Collection from the museum of Le Mans to that of Mulhouse will take place in November 2009. The integration of the vehicles into the global exhibition of the City of Automobile in Mulhouse will be effective as from the beginning of 2010.
In order to give to the public a knowledge of the content of the remarkable “Collection Jean-Albert Grégoire - Institute for the History of Aluminium”, an article, accompanied by an inventory of the vehicles and chassis, will be published in the next issue of the Journal for the History of Aluminium. In addition, each piece of this collection had been photographed and analysed in order to be consultable on the Aluminium Digital Library (www.culturalu.org).
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Online since : November 09, 2009
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Opening of the Aluminium Digital Library!
 | | Accessible at the link : www.culturalu.org, the Aluminium Digital Library offers you a sample of approximately 2 000 images on the topics of aluminium, its applications, its industries, its heritage and also on its impacts.
These images are organised by thematic albums coming from fonds and collections of archives, photographs or objects of which IHA is the depositary or the manager.
We wish you a pleasant and profitable navigation through this new digital library online !
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Online since : July 16, 2009
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The death of G.-Y. Kervern, the instigator of IHA
| | The Institute for the History of Aluminium was plunged into mourning by the death of its creator, Mr Georges-Yves Kervern, in December 2008.
He was a former student of the “École Polytechnique” (1955), Chief Engineer of the National Mining Service and graduated of the Institut d’études politiques [Institute of political studies, Paris, France]. Georges-Yves Kervern (1935-2008) followed an industrial career within Pechiney Ugine Kuhlmann then within Pechiney (1971-1987). When he left Pechiney, he worked in banking and insurance.
In 1986, on the occasion of the centenary of the aluminium smelting process, events, publications and exhibitions were organized, with a strong focus on the history of aluminium. At that time, Georges-Yves Kervern was Chairman of the French Aluminium Association and president of the Pechiney aluminium group. He took this occasion to instigate the creation of IHA. His objective was to make durable the effort which had already begun to preserve and develop (in the framework of exchanges between University and Industry), the historical research on aluminium, paying particular attention to the importance of the international aspect of the work of the Institute from that time.
He personally deposited some of his archives with IHA and regularly contributed to the work of the Institute during the last twenty years.
As Visiting Professor to the Sorbonne University and author of many publications (among others on cyndinic – the science of risk), Georges-Yves Kervern had always expressed an important curiosity and intellectual open mind.
The Institute for the History of Aluminium addresses its sympathy to his family and his friends.
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Online since : January 15, 2009
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Organisation of IHA: globalisation
| | The Scientific Committee of IHA reinforced its globalisation by the creation of the role of a second vice-president of the Committee. Hans-Otto FRØLAND, professor of contemporary history at in Trondheim (Norway) agreed to accept this responsibility.
In addition, a role of a second vice-president of IHA was created. Claude RISS, until now Secretary of IHA, was elected to this function. He is one of the Officers of IHA with Maurice LAPARRA, President, Gaston OUELLET, Vice-President, and Claude BOISSELOT, Treasurer.
Finally, Philippe LECLAINCHE, General Delegate of the Association française de l’aluminium (French Aluminium Association), was named as director of IHA.
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Online since : December 01, 2008
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