Fabrication and Distribution Commission

Chariman: Pierre Chaumès
Deputy chairman: Paul Crouzet

For any information or contacts on this commission, write to histalu@histalu.org

Area of study
The Fabrication and Distribution commission specialises in the downstream side of aluminium production, including primary and secondary conversion of aluminium and its alloys, the role of research and innovation in the development of the aluminium industry, and business aspects.

Currently active workgroups

• 3C casting (facilitator: Paul Crouzet)
  
• Packaging in the Pechiney group (facilitator: Pierre Crombet)
  
• Technical history of rolling. The work of this group will follow on from the work done on « rolling professions »
  
• Aluminium and aeronautics (facilitator: Pierre Chaumès).

Groups in the creation process

• History of distribution (facilitator: Claude Riss)
  
• History of the beverage can (facilitator: Claude Riss)

Examples of completed work

• Aluminium in the construction industry (IHA collection)
  
• History of the Issoire and Neuf-Brisach plants (published under Anthony Simon’s name in 1999 by Éditions du Miroir-Institut pour l’histoire de l’aluminium under the title Issoire et Neuf-Brisach, deux usines phares de l’industrie de l’aluminium)
  
• L’Aluminium Français, thesis by Florence Hachez-Leroy (published in 1999 under the title L’Aluminium Français, l’invention d’un marché 1911-1983, Paris, CNRS éditions)
  
• History of the Alucam plant (Cameroun) (IHA collection)
  
• History of the Cran plant (presentation of work by Alexandre Giandou with contribution from Ivan Grinberg in 2003 in Cahiers d'histoire de l'aluminium, # 31)
  
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