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No plan to restore smelter production - Rio Tinto
Infrastructure

No plan to restore smelter production - Rio Tinto

The Tiwai Point aluminium smelter has no plans to restart a production line shut earlier this year.Line four, which typically contributes about 9 percent of the site’s total production, was shut in April as part of the firm’s covid-19 response. Media yesterday reported the line m...

Staff reporters 07 Aug 2020
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Hydrogen truck stops to start next year
Infrastructure

Hydrogen truck stops to start next year

The country’s first hydrogen truck stops could be operating mid-2021 after the government committed $20 million toward the $69 million project.The investment will help fund construction of eight fuelling stations in Auckland, Waikato, Bay of Plenty, Taranaki, Taupo, Manawatu, Wel...

Gavin Evans 07 Aug 2020
Telco execs contend with unrealistic customers
Infrastructure

Telco execs contend with unrealistic customers

Telecommunications executives are grappling with how to deliver world-class infrastructure and services to customers who don’t value their firms' products.

Paul McBeth 06 Aug 2020
Hopes for Tiwai extension waning
Infrastructure

Hopes for Tiwai extension waning

Energy industry executives are losing confidence that a deal to extend the ramp-down of the Tiwai Point aluminium smelter can be achieved. Power supplier Meridian Energy has been in talks with smelter owner Rio Tinto to try and extend the scheduled closure beyond August 2021 t...

Gavin Evans 06 Aug 2020