In 2016 Norilsk Nickel bought some 5 tons of palladium from Global Palladium Fund. The authorized capital of the fund received $100 million, which allowed making trial transactions. The fund is toying with palladium transactions. Last year it successfully bought palladium and then resold it to the major customers of Norilsk Nickel. This year the…
Norilsk Nickel is ready to study the offer on the Udokan deposits development in the Zabaikalie region, but the company has not received such an offer. “We have no offers so far. If we get any, we’ll discuss it”, the company CEO Vladimir Potanin said. The Udokan deposits is one of the largest copper deposits…
In 2016 Metalloinvest sold a packet of Nornickel ADR valued at $342 million (1.4%). According to the group statement, as of December 31, 2015 it owned 3.2% of Nornickel shares, as of December 31, 2016 – 1.8%. Now the group has some 29.013 million ADR of the nickel company, having sold over 21.181 million. Nornickel’s…
Russian metals producer Norilsk Nickel is ready to consider participation in the development of the Udokan copper field, CEO and key shareholder Vladimir Potanin said on the sidelines of a meeting of the Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs on March 16. “We have received no detailed proposals so far. We will negotiate once it…
The net profit of the metals producer Norilsk Nickel increased by 47%, to $2.531 billion in 2016, as calculated under the International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS), the company said in a statement on March 15. Revenue fell by 3%, to $8.259 billion. Earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization (EBITDA) decreased by 9%, to $3.899…
At present there are no technologies in the world that can make metal industry green, Norilsk Nickel vice-president Elena Bezdenezhnykh believes. “We are constantly improving the ecological conditions. By 2023 the company will have invested 250 billion rubles into environmental projects. But, unfortunately, there is no technology that can make metallurgy green. At best it…
The Monchegorsk site of the Kola Iron and Steel Works, a part of Norilsk Nickel, has finished the modernization of the bulk machinery warehouse. The warehouse with the size of 2.5 thousand square meters saw the replacement of walls and roof, new lighting system assembly, as well as the disassembly of old racks, which were…
Norilsk Nickel has announced preliminary consolidated production results for the fourth quarter and full year of 2016 as well as its production outlook for full year 2017. In Q4 2016 consolidated nickel production amounted to 58,000 tons, up by 5% QoQ. Nickel output from the company’s own Russian feed reached 53,000 tons, up by 16%…
