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Photographer: Sandra Hughes
Taken: June 19, 2016
Caption: Constellium
Additional Description: Constellium is a global, sector, leader, strongly committed to designing and manufacturing innovative and high valued added aluminum product and solutions for a broad range of applications dedicated primarily to aerospace, automotive, and packaging markets. The history of Constellium dates almost as far back as the commercial production of aluminum, and our know-how today has grown out of the expertise of Pechiney, Alusuisse, allan, and Wise Metals. Constellium’s plant, located in Muscle Shoals, is extremely proud to be a part of the Shoals community and pleased to have contributed all the recycled aluminum as the artistic medium for the Singing River Sculptures and the Singing River Sculpture Garden.

The Shoals began its long heritage as an aluminum manufacturing community with the construction of the Reynolds facility in April 1941. The facility was purposed for the Defense Plant Corporation, a federal agency. Incredibly, just three months later, the first ingot was rolled on the hotline. At that time, our country was just beginning to recover from the Great Depression. The construction and opening of the plant created much-needed jobs in our community. The selection of the site in the Shoals area was primarily due to the abundant electrical power created by the Tennessee Valley Authority and the dam system along the Tennessee River. Initially, the facility produced aluminum to support the World War II effort. 2014
Submitted: June 20, 2016, by Sandra Hughes Tidwell of Killen, Alabama, USA.
Database Locator Identification Number: p354678
File Size: 5.417 Megabytes

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