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Dominance of spreadsheets I’m not exaggerating when spreadsheets have been the de facto tool for number crunching in aluminium manufacturing. Whether it’s a budget forecast, a process calculation, or a metal chemical composition, a spreadsheet is usually the format for storing and sharing both the data and the calculation logic. Why are spreadsheets so popular? […]

I stumbled into the aluminium rather by accident. My first job in an aluminium smelter: As I was driving on the highway through the Alps on a snowboarding trip, I passed a large aluminium plant by the little French town Saint-Jean-de-Maurienne. At that time, I was an Erasmus student looking for an industrial internship to […]