Inside the Lochaber aluminium smelter, in Fort William GFG Alliance would seek to build an alloy wheels plant at a cost of £70m to diversify the business and grow its market, while paying ...

Sanjeev Gupta would today receive the same £586 million backing from SNP ministers to save Scottish jobs, despite the collapse of his main lender and an ongoing Serious Fraud Office investigation ...

New red bio-diesel units at the Lochaber Smelter in the foothills of Ben Nevis The new owners of the UK's last aluminium smelter plan to make vehicle components on the site in a move that could ...

The guarantees were made when Sanjeev Gupta bought the Lochaber smelter in 2016 but the full extent of government support has only just been confirmed. Scottish Labour branded it a "dodgy deal ...

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Ms Sturgeon’s administration handed Mr Gupta hundreds of millions of pounds of taxpayer cash to buy the Lochaber smelter and associated hydropower plant at Fort William. State guarantees worth ...

Rio Tinto is selling an aluminium smelter and hydro-electric power plants in Scotland to industrials group Liberty. The assets in Lochaber are the mining and resources giant’s only operational ...

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As part of the deal Sturgeon’s Rural Economy minister, Fergus Ewing, guaranteed the smelter’s power purchases from the Lochaber hydro-plant owned by the company for the next 25 years.

Mr Rennie said: “GFG Alliance is laughing all the way to the bank with the Lochaber smelter deal with the SNP Government “GFG bought Lochaber for £330 million but the assets have now been ...