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| Company type | Subsidiary |
|---|---|
| Industry | Aerospace, mass transportation, building, construction, packaging, aluminium, alumina. |
| Founded | 1902 as a subsidiary of Alcoa |
| Headquarters | Deloitte Tower, Montreal, Quebec |
Key people | Ivan Vella, President and CEO |
| Products | Aluminas, aluminium sheet, extrusion billet, rod and remelt ingot, alloys, cable, packaging |
| Revenue |  US$23.60 billion (2006) |
| US$2.786 billion (2006) | |
Number of employees | 68,000 (including joint-ventures) |
| Parent | Rio Tinto |
| Website | riotinto |
Rio Tinto Alcan is a Canada-based mining company. Headquartered in Montreal, Quebec, it is a subsidiary of global mining conglomerate Rio Tinto. It was created on 15 November 2007 as the result of the merger between Rio Tinto's Canadian subsidiary and Canadian company Alcan.
The company is the global leader of aluminium mining and production, above its one time parent Alcoa (from which it split in 1928), Rusal, and some Chinese public companies.