Chinese technicians parachuted in to fix ailing WA lithium plant

Albemarle chief executive Kent Masters says the company has flown in workers from China to get its troubled lithium hydroxide plant in Western Australia running properly.

New York-listed Albemarle said the Kemerton plant, built at an industrial park about 180 kilometres south of Perth, was operating at about 50 per cent capacity and still not producing a hydroxide product approved by its battery customers.