Local citizen of Pobugskoye Denis Shevchenko has been appointed CEO of Pobuzhye Ferronickel Plant instead of Oleg Bespalov, who has been chairing the company since 2014 under a 5-year contract. The task of the new CEO is to continue building a modern European-type enterprise taking into account global development principles. Shevchenko worked not only in…
Solway Investment Group, owner of Pobuzhye Ferronickel Plant, is closely watching the situation with the ban of nickel ore exports from Indonesia. “So far the information from Indonesia has been controversial. We are closely watching the situation with the temporary halt of nickel ore exports and taking steps to increase purchases from other countries. For…
Pobuzhye Ferronickel Plant has confirmed its correspondence to the ISO 9001:2015 for the quality management system, ISO 14001:2015 for the environment management system and ISO 45001:2018 for the labor safety management system. The latter is new for PFK. Moreover, the company is one of the first in Ukraine to have successfully passed the corresponding audit.…
The giant leap of electricity tariffs is questioning the further work of Pobuzhye Ferronickel Plant. In particular, in July the tariff grew from 57 UAH per MW-h to 347 UAH and 312 UAH in August. “This is a death penalty for us. Electricity accounts for 45% of all our manufacturing expenses. The new tariff will…
In January-June Pobuzhye Ferronickel Plant increased tax payments by 25.6% YoY, to 51.499 million UAH. Single social payments grew by 28.1%, to 26.19 million UAH, while personal income tax and military tax increased by 25.2%, to 20.867 million UAH. Average salary went up by 29.3%, to 10395 UAH. (Ukrainian metal)
In January-June Pobuzhye Ferronickel Plant LLC decreased ore processing by 15.5% YoY, to 573.75 thousand tons. Ferronickel output dropped by 8.5%, to 32280 tons, or by 18.7%, to 6.1 thousand tons of nickel. The main reason of the decrease is the work with lower capacity due to the elimination of consequences of the machinery malfunction…
Pobuzhye Ferronickel Plant has overcome the negative personnel dynamics by increasing salary by 38% in H2 2018. “In December 2018 we hired 11 people more than resigned. The people started returning to the plant”, the company CEO Oleg Bespalov said. Earlier a part of the employees moved to the neighboring Poland to seek jobs. The…
In Q1 Pobuzhye Ferronickel Plant completed the campaign to repair its main machinery, planned for the current year. “We have replaced lining at the tube-type rotary kiln No. 1 and the dome of the ore-thermal furnace No. 1. For the first time in 7 years. We hope it will operate for some 5-6 years more”,…
