Jamaica’s St. Ann Bauxite back to full production in three months
Thursday, September 3rd, 2009| Published on Friday, September 4, 2009 | Email To Friend Print Version |
By Horace Helps KINGSTON, Jamaica (Reuters) — Jamaica’s St Ann Bauxite Partners Ltd plans to return to nearly full production within three months, its principals said.The company now operates at 64 percent of capacity, producing 3 million tonnes of bauxite annually at its mine on Jamaica’s northeast coast.
It plans to increase production despite global marketplace challenges that have seen the closure of two other bauxite and alumina companies in Jamaica, company officials said late on Wednesday. “We will have to watch the market as we move forward and are poised to do everything we need to do to continue bringing production up,” St. Ann Bauxite President Larry Holley told company workers at a function that included Jamaican government officials and bauxite industry technocrats. (more…) |
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