{"id":178867,"date":"2025-09-30T01:23:09","date_gmt":"2025-09-30T01:23:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/178867\/"},"modified":"2025-09-30T01:23:09","modified_gmt":"2025-09-30T01:23:09","slug":"jobs-to-go-as-western-australia-refinery-shut-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/178867\/","title":{"rendered":"Jobs to go as Western Australia refinery shut down"},"content":{"rendered":"

The US-based Alcoa Corporation has announced it would permanently close its Kwinana refinery, which curtailed production in June last year.\ufeff<\/p>\n

The refinery currently has about 220 employees, a number Alcoa said would be “reduced” during 2026 in the closure process.<\/p>\n

\"\"\/Alcoa will close its Kwinana refinery in Western Australia. (Trevor Collens)<\/p>\n

Some employees will remain beyond 2026 to prepare the site for future redevelopment.<\/p>\n

Factors in the decision to shut down the refinery included the age of the facility, scale and operating costs, market conditions and bauxite grade challenges.\ufeff<\/p>\n

“Alcoa operated the Kwinana refinery for a number of years in a challenging environment and made the difficult decision to permanently close the facility after unsuccessfully exploring multiple options for a sustainable path to restarting,” Alcoa chief operations officer and executive vice president Matt Reed.<\/p>\n

“We appreciate the dedication and support of our Kwinana employees, contractors and suppliers who have made a major contribution to Western Australia’s economic development and prosperity over more than six decades.”<\/p>\n

\"\"\/Hundreds of jobs are at risk. (Trevor Collens)<\/p>\n

\ufeffThe company will work with the WA state government on site redevelopment options and potential future land use.<\/p>\n

Alcoa will also continue to operate its port and rail facilities at Kwinana, along with its other Western Australian and Victorian operations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The US-based Alcoa Corporation has announced it would permanently close its Kwinana refinery, which curtailed production in June…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":178868,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":["post-178867","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178867","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=178867"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178867\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/178868"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=178867"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=178867"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=178867"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}