Native name
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中国铝业股份 |
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Public | |
Traded as | |
Industry | Metals |
Founded | 2001 (Beijing, China) |
Headquarters | Beijing, China |
Key people
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Xiong Weiping (CEO), Ge Honglin (Chairman of the Board) |
Products | Aluminum and copper products |
Revenue | RMB 71.1 billion (2013) |
Owner | Aluminum Corporation of China (35.78%) general public |
Number of employees
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103,493 (2013) |
Website | www.chalco.com.cn www.chinalco.com |
Aluminum Corporation of China Limited (Chinese: 中国铝业股份有限公司, known as Chalco), is a Chinese company listed in Hong Kong SAR and in New York.multinational aluminium company headquartered in Beijing, People's Republic of China. It is the world's second-largest alumina producer and third-largest primary aluminium producer (and the largest producer in China). Chinalco is principally engaged in the extraction of aluminium oxide, electrolyzation of virgin aluminium and the processing and production of aluminium as well as traded trading and engineering and technical services.
Its primary listing is on the and it is a constituent of the SSE 180 index. It has secondary listings on the and the .
The major shareholder of the company was Aluminum Corporation of China known as Chinalco (Chinese: 中国铝业公司), a state owned enterprise .
The company has a number of distinct business segments including (1) alumina refining, (2) primary aluminum smelting, and (3) energy. The alumina refining segment consists of mining and purchasing bauxite, refining bauxite into alumina, and production and sales of alumina chemicals and metal gallium. The aluminum smelting segment smelts alumina to produce primary aluminum and also produces carbon products, aluminum alloy products, and other aluminum products. Finally the energy segment produces coal, generates electricity from coal, develops wind and solar power, manufactures new energy equipment, and integrates coal electricity generation with aluminum operations.
Until 2013, it was also engaged in aluminum fabrication but has since sold this business line.
Aluminum Corporation of China (Chinalco) is a state-backed holding company established to be the primary aluminium producer in the People's Republic of China in 2001. It is the parent company of Aluminum Corporation of China Limited (Chalco) which is listed on the New York, Hong Kong and Shanghai stock exchanges.
With effect from 10 June 2008, Chalco was added to the ().