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Australia offers financial support for crippled Alcoa aluminium plant

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The Australian government has offered "substantial" financial support to help repair Alcoa's aluminium smelter in Victoria that was crippled last month by a state-wide blackout, government Ministers said on Monday. The outage, which caused molten aluminium to solidify, disrupted some production at the 300 000 t/y Portland smelter and raised questions about the facility's long-term future.
 
 
 
 
 

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