(FILES) This illustration picture shows the building of the "Aluminum Dunkerque" plant, the largest aluminum refinery in Europe and the largest industrial consumer of electricity, in Loon-Plage, northern France, on January 21, 2022. Aluminium Bahrain group announced on June 2, 2026, that it had acquired the French metals group Aluminium Dunkerque from American Industrial Partners for "approximately 2.2 billion dollars (1.9 billion euros)". The deal, signed amid the Choose France Summit on June 1, 2026, also provides for a capital investment of a 100 million euros by the state-backed Banque Publique d'Investissement (Bpifrance) in the transaction. (Photo by FRANCOIS LO PRESTI / AFP via Getty Images)