Rescue Plan for Australia's Largest Aluminum Smelter

December 19, 2025--Written by Martin Lynch for Industrial Info Resources (Galway, Ireland, Texas)--The Australian government has agreed a plan to save the country's largest aluminum smelter from closure. Rio Tinto (London, England), the majority shareholder in the Tomago Aluminum Company smelter in Hunter Valley, New South Wales (NSW), had warned in October that the future of the operation was in doubt due to energy costs.