sentences:  The first contract was established in 1957 with the French company Pechiney to supply a quantity of 80,000 tonnes of alumina.In 2004, a large-scale modernisation programme started at Talum, which involved the construction of other new potlines for aluminium smelting.The total aluminium production from November 1954 to August 2004 amounted to around 2,560,069 tonnes, resulting an annual production of around 51,000 tonnes of aluminium.