US-listed Alcoa Corporation will increase the amount it spends on alumina product by around 50 per cent in 2024, as it covers the output of its Kwinana refinery closure.
Mark Beyer and Mark Pownall discuss Alcoa's refinery closure; Panoramic's shuttered mine; Stockland's retirement living vision; another Creasy deal; a new Yallingup resort, and preview the upcoming magazine.
ANALYSIS: Alcoa opened its Kwinana alumina refinery 60 years ago and that goes a long way to explaining why the US company decided to shut down the operation.
Alcoa Corporation has confirmed it will cease production at its Kwinana refinery this year, as it grapples with a series of challenges at its oldest WA processing operation.
Alcoa Corporation's ASX-listed joint venture partner Alumina entered a trading halt this morning, as speculation swirled around the future of the 60-year-old Kwinana refinery.
The future of Alcoa's Kwinana refinery is in limbo, with the alumina producer refusing to shut down speculation that the facility is facing imminent closure just weeks after its US parent company appointed a Perth-based COO.
The state government has approved a continuation of Alcoa's expansive bauxite mining operations in the Darling Range despite the possibility of a full review by the EPA.
One of the five people exposed to a caustic chemical spill at Alcoa's Pinjarra refinery has been released from hospital, while three workers were back on site today.
About 90 employees working at Alcoa's Kwinana alumina refinery could lose their jobs as part of a cost-cutting exercise across Western Australian operations.
Chevron Australia has told a parliamentary inquiry into the domestic gas reservation policy that it would willingly open its books to the public to demonstrate it is meeting local commitments.
In this podcast Mark Beyer and Mark Pownall discuss the DomGas inquiry, PwC, Alcoa, FMG move, and results wrap up on Wesfarmers, BHP, Pilbara Minerals, Northern Star and Monadelphous.
ASX company Alumina Ltd has revealed the financial woes facing its partner Alcoa, with their joint venture suffering a $US67 million loss as they battle regulatory issues in WA.
FYI Resources has appointed Control and Thermal Engineering to conduct work on a proposed high-purity alumina plant in Kwinana, after major partner Alcoa withdrew from the project.
Alumina producer Alcoa has won effusive backing from the WA government after agreeing to a second change to its mining plans in the jarrah forests south of Perth.
The pipeline of big resources projects in WA increasingly features complex processing plants, despite a spate of large cost blowouts on projects currently under way.
Mining giant Alcoa's Australian operations will be led by former OZ Minerals executive Matt Reed, who has acknowledged he will need to meet “evolving” stakeholder expectations in his new role.
The state's water regulator has told Alcoa to clean out a pipeline running near a drinking water dam in Waroona after finding the pipe likely to contain contaminated water and pose a pollution threat.
Mark McGowan has said Alcoa's mining operations have not put WA's water supply at risk after reports alleged the company's mining operations could pose a threat to Serpentine Dam.
Giant US company Alcoa has withdrawn plans to export raw bauxite from WA as it battles to gain approvals for its mining operations in the Darling Range.
Updated: The WA gas market has been boosted by the restart of Chevron's Wheatstone domestic gas plant, but Alcoa will not yet return to full alumina production.
Alcoa has slashed alumina production following a big disruption to the state's gas supply, but Energy Minister Bill Johnston is confident the power grid will keep running.
Our weekly appointments wrap includes Chris Sutherland, Tim Richards, Rob Bear, Nicki Ivory, Esme Bowen, Ken Wyatt, Dean Vallve, Jarrod O'Neil, Steve Targett and Peter Hall.
Alcoa Vice President of Transformation Rob Bear has moved from the United States to be the mining giant's Australian boss as a replacement search for Michael Gollschewski continues.
Mark Pownall and Mark Beyer discuss ABN, commercial builders, Perth City Deal, ACCIONA, Alcoa, BHP, OZ Minerals, startup funding, Betts Group and Wilson Parking.
Mining giant Alcoa has disclosed the departure this month of its Australian boss while confirming its global chief executive has been in Perth meeting with Premier Mark McGowan.
Alcoa Foundation has committed a further $655,000 to not-for-profit Waalitj Foundation's employment and business support programs over the next three years.
Alcoa has announced an $8.6 million grant from the federal government's renewable energy agency just days after locking in a grant from the WA government.
