Talum

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Talum
Type	Public company
Founded	1942
Headquarters	Kidričevo, Slovenia
Key people	Danilo Toplek, CEO
Industry	aluminium
Products	aluminium products, aluminium alloys
Revenue	US$491million (2006)
Employees	980 (2006)
Website	http://www.talum.si/en/home.php

Talum is a major Slovenian company based in Kidričevo and specialised in alumina and aluminium products with an annual production capacity of around 156.000 tonnes.

[edit] History

The company was founded in 1942 by the German company Vereinigte Aluminium Werke which built in Strnišče the first alumina factory in Slovenia. By the beginning of the World War I the factory was 70% completed but the construction had to be halted for obvious reasons.

The factory was finished in February 1954 and the first aluminium was produced in November the same year. The early capacity of the factory was 45,000 tonnes of alumina and 15,000 tonnes of aluminium per year.

The first contract was established in 1957 with French company Pechiney to supply a quantity of 80,000 tonnes of alumina.

In 2004 a massive modernisation programme started at Talum which involved the construction of other new potlines for aluminium smelting. The total aluminium production from November 1954 to August 2004 amounted to around 2,560,069 tonnes thus resulting an annual production of around 51,000 tonnes of aluminium.