AP60 Phase 1 project is set in Rio Tinto Alcan, Arvida Aluminium Smelter located in Jonquiere, Quebec (464 km northeast of Montreal). The AP60 Technology Centre was designed to test RTA’s proprietary AP60 smelting technology at an industrial scale. The project is the first-of-its-kind in the world and the first step in RTA’s planned investment program in Quebec’s Saguenay-Lac-Saint-Jean region. RTA’s goal was clear from the start—to safely deliver an industrial plant to demonstrate AP60 technology with minimal capital expenditure and a realistic schedule. The CAN$1.3 billion project was completed within the budget and one month ahead of schedule. It also set a world-class standard for HSE that was implemented as the benchmark by RTA and the construction industry in Quebec, which had suffered from extremely high lost time injury frequency rates (LTIFR). The project finished with an injury rate 99 percent lower than the local average. The 60,000-tonne plant employs nearly 140 people and reached its full capacity on 21 December 2013.