"Text" . . . . . . . . . . . "Development of the processing industry and uses of aluminum in daily life in Cameroon (1957-2003)" . "The completion of the construction of the hydroelectric dam with a capacity of 20 000 kW, capable of producing annually 150 million kWh on the Sanaga River in the town of Edea in Cameroon in 1953, has promoted the development of industry aluminum in Cameroon. Indeed, the French aluminum producer of Pechiney Ugine Kuhlmann group (PUK) had decided to use the water resources of Cameroon for the production of raw metal. Initially aluminum PUK activities in Africa, is the creation ALUCAM to Edea in Cameroon in 1954 (start-up in 1957). Cameroon\u2019s aluminum company (ALUCAM) whose main purpose was to produce primary aluminum, intended to be sold in international markets, mainly in France, gradually began to develop on site this metal. Therefore, with the creation in 1960 of Cameroonian society of aluminum processing called SOCATRAL, whose activities are specifically geared towards the production of objects for a wide public namely the corrugated sheets and the redemption in 1961 of a remanufacturer specializing in manufacturing household items, called Bassa aluminum (ALUBASSA), aluminum becomes either an import object, but rather one of the metals involved today as directly as possible in the lives of all days. With the creation of the company's primary aluminum in Cameroon SOCATRAL, which manufactures aluminum sheet, the aluminum considerably replaces the local cover materials: straw, raffia leaves, galvanized steel sheet. But household goods do not know the same success as the aluminum sheets especially the aluminum pots. Users consider them very light and unsuited. These pots do not resist to wood fires. They prefer pots manufactured with recovery\u2019s aluminum because they are adapted to local cooking practices and they are heat resistant despite the danger that these pot, made of artisan way pose to people's health. Convinced of SOCATRAL and ALUBASSA results, ALUCAM and the french industrial aluminum producers of Pechiney\u2019s group decide to make in other African States, an identical experience to that of Cameroon. Regarding innovation, the aluminum processing company can not convert because its industrial tools can not have other uses than that for which they were designed. The industrial level of the country does not promote the diversification of the aluminum applications. Morever, there is not sufficient market. The consequence is that, Since the beginning of the aluminum processing activities by the various business tranformation of aluminum in Cameroon, its products have remained the same." . "Objets en aluminium" . . "2015" . . . "D\u00E9veloppement de l'industrie de transformation et usages de l'aluminium dans la vie quotidienne au Cameroun (1957-2003)" . "Cameroun" . "D\u00E9veloppement de l'industrie de transformation et usages de l'aluminium dans la vie quotidienne au Cameroun (1957-2003)" . . "Concurrence" . "Industries m\u00E9tallurgiques" . . "L\u2019ach\u00E8vement de la construction d\u2019un barrage hydro\u00E9lectrique d\u2019une capacit\u00E9 de 20 000 kW, susceptible de produire annuellement 150 millions de kWh sur le fleuve Sanaga \u00E0 \u00C9d\u00E9a au Cameroun en 1953, a amplement favoris\u00E9 le d\u00E9veloppement d\u2019une industrie de l\u2019aluminium au Cameroun. En effet, les producteurs fran\u00E7ais d\u2019aluminium du Groupe PUK avaient d\u00E9cid\u00E9 d\u2019utiliser les ressources hydrauliques du Cameroun pour la production du m\u00E9tal brut. Au commencement des activit\u00E9s d\u2019aluminium de PUK en Afrique, on trouve la cr\u00E9ation d\u2019ALUCAM \u00E0 \u00C9d\u00E9a au Cameroun en 1954 (d\u00E9but d\u2019activit\u00E9 en 1957). Au d\u00E9but des activit\u00E9s d\u2019\u00E9lectrolyse, l\u2019objectif principal d\u2019ALUCAM \u00E9tait de produire de l\u2019aluminium primaire destin\u00E9 \u00E0 \u00EAtre commercialis\u00E9 exclusivement sur les march\u00E9s internationaux. Progressivement, cette entreprise a commenc\u00E9 \u00E0 valoriser sur place ce m\u00E9tal. De ce fait, avec la cr\u00E9ation en 1960 d\u2019une unit\u00E9 de transformation de l\u2019aluminium d\u00E9nomm\u00E9e SOCATRAL, dont les activit\u00E9s sont sp\u00E9cifiquement orient\u00E9es vers la fabrication des objets destin\u00E9s \u00E0 un large public \u00E0 savoir les t\u00F4les ondul\u00E9es, et le rachat en 1961 d\u2019une entreprise de seconde transformation sp\u00E9cialis\u00E9e dans la fabrication des ustensiles m\u00E9nagers, d\u00E9nomm\u00E9e ALUBASSA, l\u2019aluminium devient non plus un objet d\u2019importation, mais plut\u00F4t l\u2019un des m\u00E9taux qui interviennent aujourd\u2019hui aussi directement que possible dans la vie de tous les jours. Suite \u00E0 cette exp\u00E9rience entam\u00E9e au Cameroun, une fili\u00E8re a pu se d\u00E9velopper par la cr\u00E9ation ou la prise de contr\u00F4le par ALUCAM d\u2019industries dites de seconde transformation dans d\u2019autres pays d\u2019Afrique (Congo, Gabon, R\u00E9publique Centre Africaine, C\u00F4te d\u2019Ivoire, etc.). S\u2019il est vrai que l\u2019industrie de transformation du Cameroun a connu un d\u00E9veloppement quelque peu relatif, il faut cependant noter que l\u2019innovation n\u2019a vraiment jamais \u00E9t\u00E9 au rendez-vous. Hormis quelques rares am\u00E9liorations, les produits sont rest\u00E9s les inchang\u00E9s. De plus, la qualit\u00E9 relative des produits d\u00E9note une faiblesse dans le domaine de la R&D. C\u2019est un handicap majeur qui emp\u00EAche l\u2019industrie de transformation de l\u2019aluminium du Cameroun de vendre ses produits en dehors de l\u2019Afrique et de faire face \u00E0 la concurrence sur les march\u00E9s." . . "Th\u00E8ses et \u00E9crits acad\u00E9miques" . .