Modernization Project
ServcoCanada was the primary site services contractor for Bechtel during the project, as well as providing electrical and instrumentation support during the deficiencies stage towards the end of the project.
Bechtel’s modernization of Rio Tinto Alcan’s 60-year-old Kitimat aluminum smelter in British Columbia created an environmentally superior, safer, and more productive facility, and elevated the operation to world-class status.
The modernization project employed the latest evolution in Rio Tinto Alcan’s state-of-the-art APTM technology and boosted production to over 400,000 metric tons per year. The project simultaneously reduced the smelter’s overall emissions by nearly 50 percent, including some 500,000 metric tons per year of greenhouse gases.
