Talk:Rio Tinto Alcan/Archive 1

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HI all, does anyone know who are Alcan major stock holders???

And i guess Bauxite mining is a very durty buisness, knowing most of bauxite source are in south country especialy Brazil. Does anyone know who Alcan deal with for the bauxite and how it is done??

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Lawson Mardon Group
Clicking on 'Lawson Mardon Group' elsewhere in Wikipedia directs you to this page, with the advice "(Redirected from Lawson Mardon Group)" interpolated at the top - but the page itself gives no guidance as to why the one entity should resolve to the other. Aside from this particular case, perhaps Wikipedia needs a template to mark where this sort of substitution deserves expansion. 206.248.138.250 (talk) 14:37, 5 May 2009 (UTC)

Largest aluminum company?
This article says that this company is the largest aluminum company in the world but that article on United Company RUSAL also says that that is the largest aluminum company in the world. Both can not be true. Someone with knowledge of the aluminum industry should fix this. Qwertyzap (talk) 04:40, 15 March 2010 (UTC)


 * Yes, RUSAL has an asset of 8.5billion against RioTinoAlcan 2.6billon. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 79.254.64.3 (talk) 18:10, 20 March 2011 (UTC)

Merger of Alcan
(re-posted from Talk:Alcan):

Oppose: company had a nearly 100-year history prior to its acquisition. If it is independently notable as such, it should maintain its own page. For an indication of precedent, numerous railroads (indeed most historic railroads) and other large notable companies that later merged into conglomerates or larger companies still have separate articles dedicated to them as independent companies, if they are sufficiently notable to stand on their own. Current status is irrelevant if the historical status is sufficient, and given the evidence produced here and in other readings, it seems it would warrant such independence.Morgan Riley (talk) 17:21, 15 March 2013 (UTC) Morgan Riley (talk) 13:27, 16 April 2013 (UTC)
 * Sorry about that. Checked the wrong Talk page. I've undone all my edits related to the merge. Shawn in Montreal (talk) 15:27, 16 April 2013 (UTC)

Suggested merge with Rio Tinto Group
Since the company is no longer called "Rio Tinto Alcan" but instead just "Rio Tinto", wouldn't it be preferable to merge the article with Rio Tinto Group? Their name change sure is confusing. If not, maybe the article should be named something like "Aluminium division of Rio Tinto". – Þjarkur (talk) 13:43, 31 December 2018 (UTC)