Reynolds still ‘only checking '
NZPA;/ . Washington A spokesman for the Reynolds Metals Company said (yesterday that executives ,going to New Zealand soon '.for talks on establishing an (aluminium smelter in Southland would have “only very (preliminary discussions.” L “It is true we are interjested in investigating the possibilities in New Zealand, but we have teams going round the world all the time looking at such projects,” he said. “We are certainly a long way from any decisions.”
Th 6 spokesman said Reynolds, America’s secondlargest aluminium producer after Alco, thought that two other big companies were also having discussions about a smelter in New Zealand. He said he had no information of any Reynolds consideration of a die-casting and extrusion plant, in New Zealand. .4 '"■' The member of Parliament for Awarua, Mr W. R. Austin, was reported last week assaying Reynolds was interested in a 300,000-tonnes-a--year smelter, plus a diecasting and extrusion plant which could make car parts for export to the United States. /
Reynolds still ‘only checking'
Press, 18 February 1980, Page 6
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