Tailored technical support for your aluminium projects
The Centre d’expertise et d’innovation sur l’aluminium (CeiAl) is an initiative from AluQuébec in order to diffuse knowledge on standards and alloys, to relay good practices and to offer technical support to professionals from the industry. The CeiAl aims to encourage the use of aluminium, especially in sectors such as transportation equipment, infrastructures and bridges, and sustainable construction and buildings.
In 2020, the team at Alcoa Innovation merged to the CeiAl’s team. The combined service offer cements the CeiAl as a reference in terms of technical expertise for the whole aluminium transformation industry in Québec with the collaboration of other organizations of the network.
The CeiAl team accompanies businesses, professionals and contractors with the aim of facilitating the use and encouraging the integration of aluminium.
AluQuébec’s CeiAl is a partner in the development of concepts that will enable carrying out innovative projects with aluminium.
In the case of mandates of competitive and confidential nature, the CeiAl’s works will be invoiced. All developed intellectual property will be the exclusive property of the contractor. By no means the CeiAl will sign project plans or manufacturing quotes.
Please contact the CeiAl team to discuss your projects or if you have any questions on aluminium.
Design and solution analysis of aluminium planking on road bridges
Research on innovative uses of aluminium decks in bridges
New concept of a single span crate bridge
Dynamics of bridges
Dynamics of structures (bridge-vehicle interactions)
Analysis of total cost of ownership
Advanced modelling of electrolysis tanks
Thermo-mechanical behavior of anodes and cathodes
Hall-Héroult tank
Finite element modelling of structures
Creep/relaxation
Carbonated materials
Multi-physical modelling
Extended Finite Element Method (XFEM)
Thermodynamics of irreversible processes applied to a porous environment
Sectors of activities
Primary aluminium
Transformation industry
Infrastructures and bridges
Certifications et formations
Fellow at the Canadian Society for Civil Engineering
Industrial Research Chair – Advanced modelling of electrolysis tanks and energetic efficiency
Doctorate in Civil Engineering, Université Laval
Guest professor at Université Laval
Member of the Ordre des Ingénieurs du Québec (OIQ)
Founder of the Research Centre on aluminium – RÉGAL
More than 100 technical publications in scientific journals
Co-owner of a patent - Process for manufacturing carbon anodes for aluminium production cells and carbon anodes obtained from the same
Expertise partners
Created in 1985, Quebec Metallurgy Center is a technological transfer college centre integrated to the Cégep de Trois-Rivières, aiming to support the technological development of manufacturing enterprises in the province.
The team comprises of researchers, engineers and professors who conjugate expertise and experience. The CMQ offers an incomparable access to a pool of knowledge on metallic materials and the processes.
For more than 20 years, AGÉCO Group has been at the forefront of the agri-food economy and corporate responsibility. They help their clients make the right decisions to take advantage of their business environment. Their acquisition of the activities of Quantis Canada in 2015 allows them to offer a complete service in corporate responsibility, in its social, economic and environmental dimensions.
The Centre of Research on aluminium – REGAL, is a strategic clustering focused on research around aluminium, from its primary production, to the development of shaping and design processes, leading to the conception of new alloys. A synergy is created by uniting researchers from seven Québec learning institutions, enterprises and diverse socio-economical actors of the industry.