Windalco to reopen in July
Published:Thursday | February 17, 2011 | 12:00 AM
OPERATIONS AT the Windalco-Kirkvine works plant in Manchester are set to restart in July this year.
Mining and Energy Minister James Robertson said the reopening of the plant would create some 1,000 medium and high-end jobs.
The total capacity of Kirkvine is approximately 600,000 tonnes of alumina per year. However, the plant is projected to produce about 252,000 tonnes of alumina for 2011.
Roberston told parliamentarians on Tuesday that the planned restart of operations at Kirkvine was subject to approval by international lenders.
The Kirkvine plant is owned by Russian aluminium company, UC Rusal.
A decision was taken to suspend operations at the Windalco-Kirkvine plant in April 2009 in the wake of the global economic crisis which affected the bauxite and alumina sector.