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    Volta Aluminum Company, known as VALCO, is an aluminium company based in Tema, Greater Accra Region founded by Kaiser Aluminum and now wholly owned by...
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    Akosombo Dam (redirect from Volta River Dam)
    development of the Volta River Basin was proposed in 1949, but because funds were insufficient, the American company Volta Aluminum Company (Valco) lent money...
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  • Graham Bell in the US Volta Aluminum Company, a company based in Ghana Volta River Authority, the main electricity supplier in Ghana Volta Regional Museum,...
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    acronym for "Aluminum Company of America") is a Pittsburgh-based industrial corporation. It is the world's eighth-largest producer of aluminum. Alcoa conducts...
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  • Resources Edéa - refinery Ghana Bauxite, affiliated with Alcan Volta Aluminum Company (Valco) Rio Tinto Alcan Compagnie des Bauxites de Guinée (CBG) -...
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    which have ceased operations are included and noted as defunct. Ghana Oil Company in Accra. An Africa World Airlines ERJ-145LR at Kumasi Airport. Ecobank...
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    textile, chemicals, food products, and cement. Major companies operating in Tema include Volta Aluminium (VALCO), Tema Oil Refinery (TOR), Nestlé Ghana...
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  • wide range of industrial enterprises, the largest including the Volta Aluminum Company (Valco) smelter, saw mills and timber processing plants, cocoa processing...
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    electricity consumed in Ghana, some 60 percent of which was purchased by Volta Aluminum Company (VALCO) for its smelter. The power plant export amounted to an estimated...
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    held a 10% interest in Volta Aluminum Company Ltd. (Valco); the remaining equity was owned by the Government. Alcan Aluminum Ltd. of Canada held an 80%...
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  • Whilst at Abuakwa, he applied for and gained a scholarship from the Volta Aluminum Company Trust Fund to pursue a master's degree from the University of Manitoba...
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  • Ussher Fort UTAG strike 2022 Vice-President of Ghana Volta Aluminum Company Volta Region Volta River Volta River Authority Waist beads War of the Golden Stool...
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  • which alumina is smelted to pure aluminum. Secondary production is the process of recycling aluminum scrap into aluminum that can be used again. Capacity...
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    terms of crude steel production. Its main plant is located in the city of Volta Redonda, in the state of Rio de Janeiro. Its current CEO is Benjamin Steinbruch...
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    later, post-nineties, albums consist of Vespertine (2001), Medúlla (2004), Volta (2007), Biophilia (2011), Vulnicura (2015), Utopia (2017) and Fossora (2022)...
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    electrical energy provided via direct-current are used in smelting of aluminum and other electrochemical processes. It is also used for some railways...
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    nineteenth century, William Nicholson and Anthony Carlisle sought to further Volta's experiments. They attached two wires to either side of a voltaic pile and...
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  • Fisker Automotive (category Companies that filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in 2013)
    battery in each car came from A123 Systems in Watertown, Massachusetts. The aluminum frame was engineered by Fisker and was supplied by Norsk Hydro from Norway...
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  • Toyota's Bodine Aluminum division, which also operates a plant in Troy, Missouri. In 2020, the company's name changed from Bodine Aluminum to Toyota Motor...
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  • Relations Spokesman, Volta River Project Komla Gbedemah, Minister of Finance 1957–61 Ron Sullivan, lawyer for Kaiser Aluminum on Volta Project 1959–79 Lloyd...
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  • Toyota Motor North America (category American subsidiaries of foreign companies)
    Jackson, Tennessee to produce cast aluminum engine components for use in other manufacturing facilities. In 1996, the company established two more manufacturing...
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  • Toyota Auto Body California (category Companies based in Long Beach, California)
    the plant occupies 30 acres (12 ha). The plant produces sheet metal and aluminum components, weld subassemblies, steering columns, catalytic converters...
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    Cartoucherie Voltaïque ("Cartridge Plant of the Volta") – Ouagadougou, Haute-Volta (later Republic of Upper Volta [1958–1984], modern-day Burkina Faso [1984–present])...
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  • hydrogen gas in an enclosed vessel, is invented by Italian chemist Alessandro Volta. This is possibly the first example of a spark-ignition heat engine. 1791:...
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    the 1980s aluminum welding techniques had improved to the point that aluminum tube could safely be used in place of steel. Since then aluminum alloy frames...
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    world, the Volta a Catalunya (Tour of Catalonia). Olympic Park of Montjuïc, Barcelona. At the centre, the Olympic Stadium Lluís Companys Camp Nou, home...
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    invention of the first battery (or "voltaic pile") in 1800 by Alessandro Volta and especially since the technically improved Daniell cell in 1836, batteries...
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    Pinarello (category Manufacturing companies established in 1952)
    badging on the downtube. In 1998, the Banesto Line included the new Paris aluminum frameset and updated Pinarello logo. The Pinarello Paris in the mid-1990s...
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  • protective headlights, additional optics, heavy winch, cover for spare wheel, aluminum safety cage, and a mounted spotlight-seeker, and an interior wood trimmed...
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  • facilities worldwide, as well as others that are jointly owned by the company or run under a contract. There are a total of sixteen Toyota-owned factories...
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