industries

Aluminum

Aluar’s operations include producing liquid aluminum and the production of elaborated elements for the transporting industry, packaging, construction, energy, medicine and water treatment. Aluar is considered an active agent in the growing and development of Argentina, employing more than 1.700 persons It has various industrial plants : In Puerto Madryn , Chubut, it produces primary aluminum, with two partial elaborating plants . In Abasto, Buenos Aires Province has a laminating and extruction plant.ALUAR operates in the most demanding markets of the World, exporting from Madryn more than 200.000 tons and has more than 2000 persons working in the operation.

 Fishing

 Fishing activities are one of the mainstays of Chubut’s economy. An important indusrial and processing infrastucture, installed by her sea terminals couples the rich ichthyc element in its waters.Chubut is one of the five argentine provinces with seashores and is obtaining a steady growth in this sector, thanks to the industrial modernizing of its plants and the participation of specialized manpower.The caught species vary from hake , codfish, salmon, flounder, groper, mackerel., centoplla , crawfish, squid and vieyra.The fishing fleet comprise shore and high sea vessels and freezing factories . Fishing is totally industrial and only bivalv mollusks fishing has a caracteristic artisanal part..Puerto Madryn is the city with the greatest industrial fishing park in Patagonia.

 Oil

 Crude oil production started here in the Chubut province in 1907, when for some casual circumstances a drilling team was searching for fresh water and instead they found crude oil in Commodore Rivadavia.And the oil drilling activity started in Argentina , under theNational rules of the Mining Code, set in 1886 , which established that oil fields were state property and could only be drilled by concessions . In that1935 year the first Oil National Law is passed bearingthe number 12.161 and was set to be part of the Mining Code . This Law prescribes that the National State and the Province will receive, out of all hydrocarbons, 12% of the product drilled, percentage that still is in effect. Four companies are drilling in areas set by the Mining Code, being the rest of the producers under National Law 17.319

 Stone gems

 In out town, as in others of the Chubut Province, there are deposits of semiprecious stones which, being artisanely worked , are sold as ornamental an jewelry , highly appreciated for its beauty and also said by their energetic qualities. The offered stones are the product of superficial recollection of nodules and fragments in size varying from 2 to 15 centimeters in diameter. A Caledonian geode is appreciated for its beauty and structural constitution, its cavity covered by Caledonia and veined marble with botryoidally structure being sold by the name of “Orellanita”.

 Phorphiry

 The Patagonian Porphyry exited from the centre of Planet Earth as a gaseous and liquid mass and later became a stone some 250 million years ago . It ranks in the group of magmatic or eruptive rock because it was formed by magma’s consolidation , of a fluid mass of volcanic origin , found at a very high temperature, inside the Earth cortex. Its solidification and chemical composition, therefore, are the result of a rapid cooling and the decrease of pressure suffered by the magma while exiting from the deepness of earth and having a rapid contact with Earth’s atmosphere.It is composed by 70% silica , 14% alumina and lesser percentages of iron, calcium and magnesium. It is known the world over for it very high resistance in applications on pavement and coating layers .