Hard times for smelters

Updated October 30 2012 - 4:13pm, first published January 11 2012 - 9:13pm

AN already chill wind blowing through the aluminium industry became an icy blast in summer yesterday when Norsk Hydro announced 150 redundancies at its Kurri Kurri smelter and Tomago Aluminium - controlled by Rio Tinto with Hydro, CSR and AMP as junior partners - confirmed the impending loss of 100 positions.

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