The conglomerate’s Covalent Lithium joint venture with Chile’s SQM has completed construction of its lithium hydroxide plant in Kwinana, refocusing investor attention on the all-important commissioning.
Sean Smith
IGO has effectively determined there is no value left in a troubled lithium hydroxide plant at Kwinana, but division at the top of the business is delaying a call on what should be done with it next.
Simone Grogan
Defence and Foreign Ministers from the United Kingdom and Australia have signed a new 50-year military pact.
Blair Jackson
Analysts are tipping ASX200 company profits to be released over the next five weeks will show an average fall of nearly 2 per cent off the back of a weak year for big miners and a sluggish national economy.
Financial crimes watchdog Austrac has given Perth Mint a clean bill of health, while warning the State-owned business that trading in gold remained high risk.
Cheyanne Enciso and Matt Mckenzie
BAE Systems will shed 150 roles by November in a move that will largely impact its specialised trades workforce in Henderson as work on the Royal Australian Navy’s Anzac class frigates dries out.
The Prime Minister has called for deeper co-operation, telling industry leaders in Shanghai that ‘it is in both countries’ interests to ensure a sustainable and market-driven global steel sector’.
Nicola Smith
The company behind the $1 billion-plus Kwinana lithium refinery has been sued by a contractor alleging it is owed millions for unpaid work.
Matt Mckenzie
Roger Cook might be walking into a nightmare thanks to his government’s obsession with making stuff in WA. Plus: Will Warren Pearce make the big move?
The shipbuilder will have access to $488 million worth of debt from a group of Australian and international banks, as well as Export Finance Australia, as part of a new refinancing deal announced on Friday.
A groundbreaking Aussie company has locked in its second attempt at joining the space race, with the very first Australian-made rocket set to launch in days.
A major city council has made sweeping changes to the way residents cook and heat their homes.
Andrew Forrest’s Fortescue fighting for access to seized records as it attacks Federal Court disclosure by alleged rip-off venture Element Zero.
Neale Prior
A group of blue chip companies building the country’s biggest electric ironmaking furnace in Kwinana has been given $20 million from the Federal Government.
Federal Treasurer Jim Chalmers has assured he will be “methodical” in deciding whether a South Korean company should be allowed to own the lion’s share of Australia’s biggest defence shipbuilder.
Shares in Austin Engineering have copped it after the truck tray builder warned would need to redirect an order meant to be supplied from Chile to Indonesia, putting pressure on margins.
Rio Tinto’s mammoth Tomago aluminium smelter is reportedly close to collapse, putting some 6000 jobs at risk.
Duncan Evans
Hanwha says a key US Congressional committee has no issue with a takeover, but Austal has countered that the approval is ‘different to that claimed by Hanwha’.
Local fertiliser kingpin Vikas Rambal wants to see Anthony Albanese replicate a snap business roundtable convened by Roger Cook this week amid the fallout of US President Donald Trump’s tariff regime.
Simone Grogan, Adrian Rauso and Dylan Caporn
Truck tray supplier Austin Engineering pushing it uphill in Federal Court as Schlam Group star recruit Anastasia Podulova eyes overseas move.
The price of two staple grocery items are set to soar as farmers face extreme weather hardships – and the whole eastern Aussie seaboard could feel the squeeze.
Georgie Kibel
Donald Trump has stoked outrage after doubling the levy on Australia’s steel exports – but there still might be a “pathway” for an exemption.
Jessica Wang
Donald Trump has doubled down on an ‘an act of economic self harm’ by threatening to double the steel tariff to 50 per cent, Australia’s trade minister says.
A think tank with ex-competition umpire Rod Sims at the helm has joined the chorus pushing WA to stake its claim in a fledgling green iron industry, but Government coffers will be key to making it happen.
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