MEN’S SHED EXPERTISE CALLED ON BY QAL 

The skills and experience of members of the Gladstone Men’s Shed have been called upon by Queensland Alumina Limited (QAL) to deliver two valuable projects to the local refinery this year.  

Recently the Men’s Shed rebuilt a model of the QAL LURGI. The Lurgi is a piece of equipment at QAL that is used to assist with the Bayer Process of converting Bauxite into Alumina. This specialised project required someone with the in-depth knowledge of how this original piece of equipment was designed. Fortunately, Jim McBryde a member of the Men’s shed could draw on his 28 years’ experience as a QAL employee prior to his retirement. Jim had both the skillset and knowledge to complete this task.