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| THE HISTORY OF ALUMINIJ |
| The history of the company Aluminij d.d. Mostar begins already in the first years of the 20th century. In fact, it was then that the bauxite ore was first found in the Herzegovina region and from then began its usage. After the Second World War in 1945 a particular company is organized for researching, usage and transport of bauxite under the name Bauxite mines Mostar in which the first studies of the building of aluminum complexes in Bosnia and Herzegovina were made. The company Bauxite mines Mostar was joined to the Energoinvest company Sarajevo in 1969 to whom the government of Bosnia and Herzegovina granted concession for the development of the aluminum industry. Based on the cooperation between Energoinvest and the French firm Pechiney in 1975, the regular manufacturing began in a new alumina factory. |
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| Aluminij Mostar and various models of organization |
| With the integration of the alumina factory and the bauxite mine in 1977, a new company is established under the name Aluminij Mostar to which, after starting with regular manufacturing, in 1981 the aluminum factory enters as well |
In the period from 1981 to 1990, following political decisions from that time, Aluminij Mostar was functioning under various organizational models. Considering this, it changed its name as well, firstly joining to RO ENERGOINVEST ALUMINIJ, and later on in 1985 the company adopting the name: OOUR ALLUMINIUM FACTORY Mostar. With the elimination of OOUR, in 1989 the company received a new name:
PREDUZEĆE ALUMINIJ Mostar. Disjoining the ENERGOINVEST company in 1990, the firm receives a new name DP ALUMINIJ Mostar.
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| A panoramic view on the Aluminij factory |
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| Aluminij becomes a whole factory |
It was built in coherence with the respectable French firm Alluminium Pechiney and in fact represents a technological encircled complex for the manufacturing of aluminum. To be more exact, it embraced the manufacturing of green, baked and rodded anodes, and smelter with an overall infrastructure and rectifying station, as well as a foundry, gas treatment station and complementary facilities of technical and general character. The designed and installed capacity of the factory in the beginning came out to 92 .000 tons per year of primary aluminum and its alloys in the form of ingots, T-ingots, slabs, billets and wires. |
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| Restarting of Aluminij in 1997 |
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Thanks to the initial funding of the Republic of Croatia through the TLM Šibenik, at the historical moment of March 15th 1997, the factory of anodes was restarted.
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| Reconstructed anode factory |
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| On August 14th 1997 the restarting of the electrolytic cells |
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| Electrolytic furnaces |
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With the unselfish contribution of workers and factory management, on August 4th 1997, after more then five years from the abruption of activities, functioning again is the first electrolytic cell.
During September and October of 1997 put to work is one forth (64 electrolytic cells) from the overall electrolysis capacity. To the end of May 1998 put to work is half of the cells, and the full capacity of all 256 electrolytic cells are functioning by November 1999.
The modernization of Aluminij d.d. Mostar amounted out to 150 million convertible marks.
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