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Lithium plant builder sheds 400 as China’s Tianqi refuses to pay

A Perth-based engineering company has shed hundreds of jobs as a Chinese entity refuses to pay it for building Australia’s first lithium hydroxide plant.

MSP Engineering has shrunk from 400 employees and sub-contractors to a staff of four as the payment dispute with Tianqi drags through the courts.

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Brad Thompson was a reporter at The Australian Financial Review

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    Original URL: https://www.afr.com/companies/mining/lithium-plant-builder-sheds-400-as-china-s-tianqi-refuses-to-pay-20210310-p579ay