BHP Seen Selling South African Bayside Aluminum Plant to Hulamin

The National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa said BHP Billiton Ltd. (BHP) may sell its Bayside aluminum smelter, which the world’s biggest miner has earmarked for closure, to Hulamin Ltd.

“We do hear that they have an interest in buying that smelter,” Mbuso Ngubane, Numsa’s regional secretary for the KwaZulu-Natal province, said today by phone, referring to Hulamin, a manufacturer of finished aluminum products. The union has members at both operations.

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