New black-controlled start-up Isizinda Aluminium, which has acquired the Bayside aluminium casthouse from BHP Billiton, will receive 96 000 t/y of liquid aluminium from the Hillside smelter for conversion into slab for supply to the JSE-listed Hulamin, a 40% shareholder. Preparing to sign the R10-billion, five-year deal are BHP Billiton’s Graham Kerr and Isizinda CEO Sizwe Khumalo, who has aspirations to expand the casthouse’s offering to include aluminium extrusion billet, rod, wire, rim alloy and slugs for downstream aluminium beneficiation in Richards Bay’s industrial development zone.