page_title: Companhia Brasileira de Aluminio
section_title: History
hierarchical_section_title: Companhia Brasileira de Aluminio / History
caption_attribution_description: Alumínio / SP - Presidente Lula visita a fábrica da Companhia Brasileira de Alumínio, acompanhado por funcionários da empresa.
context_page_description: Companhia Brasileira de Aluminio CBA is the largest aluminium producer in Brazil having a total annual production of around 480,000 tonnes.
  It is headquartered in the city of São Paulo.
context_section_description: Established on June 4, 1955, Companhia Brasileira de Aluminio was the first aluminium plant in Brazil producing 4.000 tonnes/year but after fifty years in 2005 the company had a producing capacity of 400,000 tonnes/year.
  Now the company has a large distribution chain all across Brazil including a sea terminal in the Port of Santos.
caption: Brazilian president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva visits the Brazilian Aluminium Company in 2006
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