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AlcoaU.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. In 1913 it established the town of Alcoa in eastern Tennessee as a planned industrial community. A 1945 federal antitrust ruling obliged it to sell its Canadian subsidiary (now Alcan Aluminum Ltd., its strongest competitor). In 1998 Alcoa acquired Alumax Inc. Alcoa's other products include plastic containers and packaging equipment. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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| Reynolds Food Packaging offers a full line of stock and custom disposable packaging products for the foodservice, supermarket, processor, and agricultural markets. A refocused Reynolds Food Packaging business, which will combine the strengths of Alcoa's thermoforming sheet and food packaging businesses to better serve the foodservice industry, including foodservice distributors, processors, agriculture, bakeries and restaurants headed by Rebecca Liebert. Reynolds Food Packaging and AFL Telecommunications. |
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