Kwinana Industrial Area: Adding Value
Kwinana Industries Council director Chris Oughton. Image: KIC. BY REUBEN ADAMS TIANQI’S decision to establish a lithium downstream processing facility at the Kwinana Industrial Area (KIA) was a watershed moment. It not only flagged a new wave of growth for the KIA, it was synonymous with a broader step change for WA’s resources sector – from ‘dig and deliver’ into value-added processing. The Kwinana Industrial Area is the heart of the Western Trade Coast (WTC), WA’s premier industrial area which pumps about $15 billion into the State economy each year. The KIA could see its current $11 billion per annum contribution to the WA economy skyrocket as this push toward secondary processing and battery manufacturing gains momentum. In August 2017,…