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Chinese company Tianqi Lithium and its head contractor MSP Engineering are on track to achieve 80 per cent Western Australian content on two big construction projects worth more than $700 million.

Talison Lithium has engaged MSP Engineering to conduct a feasibility study into another expansion at its Greenbushes project while a $320 million upgrade, set to double production, is already under way.

Kerman Contracting has won a $20 million contract for works associated with the upgrade of the crushing circuit at Talison Lithium’s Greenbushes operation in the South West.

Few projects are more meaningful for WA’s economic direction than the Greenbushes lithium mine expansion and the new lithium refinery in Kwinana.

Three local companies have secured work across the state, with Kerman Contracting, Adco Constructions and WestStar Industrial all announcing recent contract wins.

WestStar Industrial subsidiary SIMPEC has won a $2.7 million contract at Talison Lithium’s Greenbushes lithium mine.

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Henderson-based Civmec will start a maintenance services contract with iron ore miner Roy Hill Holdings next month, building on work it is undertaking for major players Rio Tinto, Alcoa of Australia and Fortescue Metals Group.

WestStar Industrial has secured an $8 million contract for construction work at Tianqi Lithium’s Kwinana processing plant.

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Construction costs for many lithium refining projects have been revised up in the past year as proponents rethink the scale and scope of their developments, with Tianqi Lithium’s Kwinana project the latest to run higher than forecast.

A local access management firm has entered a partnership with Swedish scaffolding manufacturer HAKI to provide a platform for expansion into the oil and gas industry.

Albemarle Corporation could have the whip hand in a further consolidation of Western Australia’s lithium industry, as its partner in the Greenbushes mine, Tianqi Lithium, seeks to sell a stake in its Kwinana refinery and/or the mine itself.

The state’s Supreme Court has ruled that Chinese-owned Tianqi Lithium should have to repay its $35.8 million debt to Perth-based engineering consultancy MSP Engineering.

International insulation contractor Kaefer Integrated Services has launched legal action against Perth-based consultancy MSP Engineering over a $1 million debt.

Embattled Chinese mining company Tianqi Lithium has appealed a court order that it repay a $38.8 million debt to Perth-based engineering consultancy MSP Engineering.

Tianqi Lithium has lodged $39 million with the state’s courts after a stay on payments to contractor MSP Engineering was granted, as Tianqi awaits an appeal over a March ruling.