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Glen NorrisSenior Business Reporter

Glen Norris has worked in London, Hong Kong and Tokyo with stints on The Asian Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg and South China Morning Post.

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QLD Business

Alumina plant at Gladstone.The Boyne Island aluminium smelter will be modernised to the tune of $692 million.Queensland / Industry / Aluminium

Qld government forges deal with Rio to keep smelter viable

For an undisclosed amount of financial support, Rio Tinto has committed to running its Boyne aluminium smelter in the industrial city of Gladstone at full capacity until 2040.

QLD Business

Orora chief executive Brian Lowe at the company's $25m recycling facility near Gawler. Picture: Andre Castellucci

Orora flags sale of US business to focus on whisky, liquor bottles

Takeover target Orora, which revealed it had rejected a $3.4bn bid from US private equity giant Lone Star on Tuesday, has flagged the sale of its US packaging business.

QBW

Artist's impression of the new luxury project on Sovereign Island

Meet the tycoon betting big on his Gold Coast penthouse project

Singapore property tycoon Ching Chiat Kwong, who made a fortune developing tiny units in Asia, is behind a $150m Sovereign Islands development offering 10 sprawling homes.

City Beat

uJune 12, 2024: Cirque du Soleil Luzia performers Nelson Smyles and Melvin Diggs ahead of the premiere at Adelaide Showgrounds. Picture: Naomi Jellicoe

Golf club swings multimillion dollar deal with Cirque Du Soleil

Royal Queensland Golf Club at Hamilton has hit the big time under the big top after sealing a multimillion dollar deal with Cirque Du Soleil to host the troupe.

Business

Personalised label on Glenfiddich single malt.

Orora shares soar on hopes Lone Star will sweeten bid

Investors are snapping up shares in the packaging giant, amid hopes US private equity group Lone Star will lift its rejected $3.4bn takeover offer.

Business

Moranbah $1 mine to open.Nick Jorss..Pic Annette Dew

Coal king hits back at Swiss rebellion

Bowen Coking Coal executive chairman Nick Jorss has slammed an attempt by Swiss-based fund iolite Capital to unseat him from the board.

City Beat

COAL ADVOCATE: Queensland Resources Council Chief Executive Ian Macfarlane would like to see the money from metallurgical coal poured back into Queensland projects like the Browne Stadium upgrade.

Chainsaw pops Twiggy’s hydrogen balloon

Ian ‘Chainsaw’ Macfarlane has a serious beef with Andrew ‘Twiggy’ Forrest’s ambitions to build hydrogen into a major renewable energy source in Australia.

City Beat

Mining giant Peabody has changed the name of North Goonyella mine to Centurion Coal Mine as the operation pushes ahead with its resumption.

New peak group spruiks king coal as jobs, wealth creator

Coal is fighting back, with industry heavyweights forming a new peak body this week to garner grassroots support for the beleaguered sector.

QLD Business

Chris Hewitt poses at Tritium in Murarrie, Brisbane on Wednesday, September 12, 2018. Tritium have got US funding to make super fast charging stations for growing electric car market. (AAP Image/Claudia Baxter)

300 jobs saved as failed Tritium sold to Indian firm for $45m

An Indian EV charging giant will pay $45m for failed Tritium, saving hundreds of jobs at its Brisbane headquarters but leaving creditors virtually empty handed.

City Beat

A Liquid Nitrogen bank containing suspension of stem cells. Cell culture for the biomedical diagnostic

Griffith poaches star biomedical scientist from UQ

A big coup for Griffith University against its long-time sandstone rival over at the University of Queensland. Griffith has poached leading biomedical expert Professor Paul Clarke from UQ.

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