Australia offers A$240m aid for crippled Alcoa aluminium plant
Smelter in Victoria damaged by state-wide blackout which caused molten metal to solidify
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Melbourne
THE Australian government has offered "substantial" financial support to help repair Alcoa Corp's aluminium smelter in Victoria that was crippled last month by a state-wide blackout, government ministers said yesterday.
The outage, which caused molten aluminium to solidify, disrupted some production at the 300,000-tonnes-per-year Portland smelter and raised questions about the facility's long-term future.
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