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 Sweeper Parts Saguenay - Saguenay, Quebec is located nearly 200km or 120 miles north of the city of Quebec. The city of Saguenay is located on the Saguenay River within the Saguenay-Lac-Saint-Jean region. Saguenay's geographical code is 941 and the City of Saguenay constitutes a territory equivalent or TE to a regional county municipality. Along with Le Fjord-du-Saguenay, another regional county municipality, it forms the census division or also referred to as CD of Le Saguenay-et-son-Fjord. The city is the seat of judicial district of Chicoutimi.
The term "Saguenay Valley" or "the Saguenay" had been the name of the whole Saguenay River region, prior to being utilized as the city's name.
Situated in a depression within the Canadian Shield, Saguenay has a more temperate weather than the surrounding area. This has allowed for human settlement and agriculture to happen. The particularly concentrated and small Lac St-Jean region where the city is situated has been described as an isolated "oasis" in the middle of the far-off wilderness of the vast area including Northern Quebec.
Not many roads connect the region from the east and the south and there is just one connecting road from the Northwest. There are no roads that go north from the region into the wilderness. The last roads that direct north end just a short distance from the city of Saguenay and are still considered within the Lac St-Jean area. Except for some remote Inuit and Cree villages, there are no other human settlements due north of Saguenay all the way to the Canadian Arctic islands.
The economy of Saguenay is currently in transition. Some of the mainstays are teaching and developing research in applied technologies for aluminum, energy, Biomedical Sciences, boreal forest and genomics. The economy additionally relies on the exploitation of water resources. The City of Saguenay has 3 hydroelectric power stations, one operating in Pont-Arnaud, one within the borough of Jonquiere and one operating within Chute-Garneau since the spring of the year 2011.
There are 3 expansive industrial parks which total approximately 8,496,138 square meters of commercial facilities. There are 5 city centers and shopping areas, 2 power centers, 6 shopping centers and 5 major commercial arteries.
During December 2010, Rio Tinto Alcan confirmed investing 750 million dollars to be able to upgrade its pilot plant. This particular plant is located in Jonquiere AP-60 and would be over 40% more productive than the current aluminum. The first ingots are scheduled to be cast in the first quarter of 2013. The initial phase is slated to have 38 tanks equipped with new technology and an estimated production of 60,000 tons of aluminum on a yearly basis.
In the year 2009, the ISQ or Institute of Statistics of Quebec showed a per capita personal income of $31,677 versus $31,344 over 2008 numbers, which is a variation of 1.1%. The 2010 data also showed that the GDP of the Saguenay CMA during 2009 added up to a total of 6 billion compared to 9.1 billion to the GDP of the Saguenay-Lac-St-Jean.
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