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Franklin Aluminum Co Inc company history timeline

1963

When John Harper became president and CEO in 1963, Alcoa found its profit margins squeezed by increased competition, high overhead, and a generally low market price for aluminum.

1966

Aluminium Limited was renamed Alcan Aluminium Limited in 1966.

In 1966 the company posted a record profit, finally exceeding a mark it had set ten years before.

1974

1974 220hp Franklin is widely rated the best light airplane engine ever built.

1975

W. H. Krome George succeeded John Harper as chairman and CEO in 1975, and Aluminum Company of America began to show new signs of life.

1979

By 1979 Alcoa was reprocessing 110 million pounds of scrap aluminum.

1985

By 1985 that figure would rise to over 500 million pounds and recycling would account for 19% of the company’s aluminum ingot capacity.

1987

Aware of his board’s discontent, Parry took an early retirement in 1987.

1990

Stewart, Thomas A., “A New Way to Wake Up a Giant,” Fortune, October 22, 1990.

1993

1993 July 4th - 100th anniversary of the H.H. Franklin Manufacturing Co.

1995

His goal, he said, was that half of the company’s revenue should come from non-aluminum sources by 1995.

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