South Africa's Hillside Aluminum Maintains 2025 Fiscal Year Production Target Unchanged

On Thursday, April 17, despite a 1% decline in salable aluminum production to 537,000 mt at the Hillside aluminum smelter in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, for the first three quarters of the fiscal year 2025 ending in March, Hillside Aluminum stated that it would maintain its aluminum production target for fiscal year 2025.

Hillside Aluminum is the largest aluminum producer under South32.

The aluminum production target for the Hillside smelter in fiscal year 2025 is 720,000 mt.

South32 is collaborating with South Africa's state-owned power company Eskom and Mozambique to extend the hydropower supply agreement for the Mozal aluminum smelter beyond March 2026.

Mozal Aluminium's aluminum sales volume for the first three quarters of fiscal year 2025 fell by 18%, but its production target for fiscal year 2025 remains at 350,000 mt.