Kwinana Alumina Refinery
Coordinates: 32 ° 11 ′ 28 ″ S , 115 ° 46 ′ 35 ″ E
The Kwinana Alumina Refinery is located 22 kilometers south of Perth in the Kwinana industrial estate . It is one of three refineries that Alcoa of Australia operates in Western Australia . According to Alcoa, the refinery employs 1,000 people. The annual production is 2 million tons of aluminum oxide .
Manufacturing
At the Kwinana jetty, around twelve ships with caustic soda are handled annually , which the Kwinana refinery and Pinjarra aluminum oxide refinery need to produce aluminum oxide using the Bayer process . 115 shiploads of Alcoa aluminum oxide leave for aluminum smelters there.
Kwinana was the first of the three Alcoa refineries to officially open in July 1963. On February 22, 1964, the first ship with a cargo of aluminum oxide cast off for the Point Henry aluminum smelter and in March 1964 the first cargo ship to Japan. For Alcoa, the refinery, which has been in operation for 45 years, is still in optimal technical condition.
Alcoa points out that the annual production of this refinery is sufficient to produce 15,000 Boeing 747s or one billion recyclable drinking cups, for example .
See also
Individual evidence
- ^ Kwinana Refinery. Alcoa , accessed August 2, 2015 .
- ↑ alcoa.com Overview , accessed on April 10, 2012 (English)