Transfield Services Preferred Tenderer To Alcoa

Transfield Services (TSE) has been awarded preferred tenderer status for a new A$66 million contract with Alcoa of Australia to provide maintenance services at its Pinjarra alumina refinery in Western Australia. Under the contract Transfield Services will also be invited to competitively tender for work at the Kwinana and Wagerup refineries on an ad hoc basis. The contract is for five years and commences 1 July 2011. Transfield Services will provide integrated mechanical, electrical and scaffolding services. Alcoa of Australia’s three refineries have a combined capacity to produce approximately 9 million tonnes of alumina per year which accounts for 11% of total world demand.

Transfield Services Managing Director and CEO, Peter Goode, said today: “We look forward to working with Alcoa through our alliance style contract to deliver targeted efficiency improvements. The win increases our market share and we will draw on our extensive experience in providing integrated services to many of Australia’s largest refineries.”

Alcoa is the world’s leading producer of alumina, primary aluminium, and fabricated aluminium. In addition, Alcoa’s Australian operations represent the world’s largest integrated bauxite mining, alumina refining, aluminium smelting and rolling system.

Transfield Services delivers essential services to key industries in the resources and industrial, property and infrastructure sectors. A leading global provider of operations, maintenance, and asset and project management services, Transfield Services has more than 28,000 employees in Australia, New Zealand, the United States, Canada, the United Arab Emirates, Qatar, India, Malaysia, Chile and New Caledonia.