In 2024, Alcoa announced it would shut down its Kwinana alumina refinery with a phased ‘curtailment’ of the facility ongoing. Alcoa still employs about 240 people at Kwinana, down from the ...

US aluminium giant Alcoa has been fined $400,000 after work experience students suffered caustic burns at its Kwinana refinery. The incident occurred when a pump discharged a "hot caustic solution ...

US aluminium giant Alcoa has been fined $400,000 after a caustic solution burned a group of school students on work experience at its Kwinana refinery. The company pleaded guilty in the Rockingham ...

A worker noticed a burning smell and found a faulty pump emitting smoke and debris at the US-listed company's Kwinana alumina refinery near Perth, Worksafe WA says. Fearing the pump would explode ...