The German chemical concern BASF has chosen the site for its first European plant to produce components for accumulator batteries near the Norilsk Nickel enterprise in the city of Harjavalta (Finland). The commissioning of the plant, to be constructed on the basis of the operating since 2018 pilot manufacture, is scheduled for late 2020. It…
The Board of Directors of MMC Norilsk Nickel, the world’s largest refined nickel and palladium producer, has set the Extraordinary General Meeting of shareholders (EGM) date on September 19 and the EGM record date (the list of shareholders eligible to vote) on August 27. The Board of Directors has recommended for the EGM approval of…
An extraordinary shareholders meeting at Norilsk Nickel decided to pay 776.02 rubles of dividends per ordinary share (some $11.37) for the first half of 2018. The total amount of funds to be paid as dividends is 122.8 billion rubles (around $1.8 billion). (Ukrainian metal)
Russian metals producer Norilsk Nickel has launched a $2.5-billion environment protection initiative Sulphur Project at one of the two planned facilities, the company said. The project was started on the Medny plant and will later be launched at the Nadezhdinsky smelter. (Prime/Ukrainian metal)
President of Nornickel Vladimir Potanin has visited the deepest mine of the company, which is also the deepest in Eurasia, – the Skalisty Mine at the depth of 2056 meters. The Skalisty project is estimated at 134 billion rubles. Last year the mine yielded 1.9 million tons of ore, and this year 2.2 million tons…
Russian metals giant Norilsk Nickel is working on a mechanism of settlements in rubles with foreign clients who are ready for that, a representative of the company reported. “Some clients of Norilsk Nickel expressed readiness to make settlements in rubles. We are working on this issue with them,” the representative said. (Prime/Ukrainian metal)
The board of directors of Russian metals giant Norilsk Nickel has recommended paying 776.02 rubles per share, or a total of about 122.802 billion rubles in dividends for January-June, the company said in a statement. The shareholders will discuss the recommendation at an extraordinary meeting scheduled for August 27. The record date for the dividends…
Russian metals giant Norilsk Nickel expects reserves of the Global Palladium Fund to stand at about 200,000 ounces at the end of 2018, CFO Sergei Malyshev said. “We have sold the bulk of the palladium fund reserves that we had at the beginning of this year. We had the reserves of 550,000 troy ounces at…