Kurri Kurri aluminium smelter

The smelter was Hydro's only Australian asset before closure in 2012 due to its high cost and, at the time, weak market conditions. Alumina was sourced from the Gladstone refinery. Wood Mackenzie’s asset reports are built from the bottom up, incorporating a number of granular data metrics to ultimately produce our industry standard cash operating costs. This report contains a detailed asset note giving you a holistic view of the asset, including an operational overview through to a timeline of events from inception to now. This qualitative analysis is supplemented by the associated Excel download which enables interrogation of a whole series of cost and production metrics over the life of the asset.