High-purity alumina industrial plant heading to Gladstone

A $300 million high purity alumina industrial plant is one step closer for Gladstone. Alpha HPA has purchased a 9.2-hectare site within the Gladstone State Development Area.

The move highlights how Gladstone is fast becoming a world-leading manufacturing hub, drawing on the world’s demand for renewable energy to inspire new industry growth.

High purity alumina is used in high-technology items with rising consumer demand, like LED lights, lithium-ion batteries for electric vehicles and solar-power storage, and synthetic sapphire used in watches and smartphone cameras.

Alpha HPA isn’t the only company that’s chosen Gladstone to establish their manufacturing hubs:

• Fortescue Future Industries is set to build a green hydrogen manufacturing facility
• CleanCo has signed an agreement to join Sumitomo Corporation and its partners on the development of a hydrogen industry
• Hydrogen Utility (H2U) plans on building the export precinct for their proposed H2-HubTM Gladstone green hydrogen and green ammonia project at Yarwun.
• Queensland generator Stanwell and Japan’s largest hydrogen supplier Iwatani, will conduct a feasibility study into developing a large-scale renewable hydrogen facility.

AlphaHPA’s project will also have economic benefits for the region, supporting around 120 new jobs in a new emerging industry with global demand.

Gladstone is showing the world that Queensland is the place to get clean energy to power what you do.