The Overseas Minister went to Koné on November 25, 2012 and visited the Northern Plant. He was accompanied by a delegation comprising the President of the Northern Province Paul Néaoutyine and the elected members, the High Commissioner Albert Dupuy, the Member of Parliement Sonia Lagarde, the Senate President Luc Wema, the Congress President Gérard Poadja,...
First visit for Kim Joonsik, Senior Executive Vice President of POSCO, in charge of the stainless steel division. The same elected Members of the Northern Province who visited Korea in June, welcomed the delegation to the traditional hut. The delegation was then invited to sit in the premises of the Assembly in order to discover...
The 16th SMSP/POSCO/NMC/SNNC Technical and Financial Committee was held in Gwangyang from 6th to 10th August 2012. The committee was divided into two groups: the Technical Committee for the analysis of production data and the Financial Committee for the analysis of accounting and financial operations of SNNC. SNNC and POSCO teams presented the plant production’s...
On Monday August 6th a ceremony was held inside Furnace #1 to commemorate the placement of the first refractory bricks. This event is of particular importance for technical reasons because it represents an irrevocable step onto the final path to First Ore. Koniambo Nickel SAS President Peter Hancock congratulated the work of personnel from Construction,...
The two partners have signed all the documentation for the loan amounting to 170 million euros – that is to say more than 20 billion XPF – granted by AFD to SMSP in 2011. With the signing of this documentation, SMSP can now mobilize fund from AFD and participate in the financing of the Northern...
A delegation of 26 persons of the Northern Province and SMSP’s Assembly including the President Paul Néaoutyine and André Dang, went to Gwangyang and Seoul from 25th to 30th June. It was an opportunity for the elected representatives of the Northern Province, particularly those from the new term, to discover POSCO industrial complex and to...
The 15th Technical Committee has gathered the representatives of the two partners, SMSP and POSCO as well as the technicians of the two mining and metallurgical subsidiaries, NMC and SNNC. The schedule of this Committee was emphasized on the various stages of the production chain, beginning with the extraction of ore, its processing (sorting, haulage,...
Bureau Veritas Certification France has awarded to the central laboratory, certification according to ISO 9001 2008. This certification was issued following an audit and has been approved by the certification committee of this organization. Bureau Veritas Certification is the world’s leading certification. The activity covered by this certification is “preparating and analysis of nickel ore...
Considering the project’s magnitude and thanks to the guarantee of the Northern Province, the French Development Agency (Agence Française de Développement – AFD) is actively engaged in the construction of the Northern Plant by participating to its financing. A loan amounting to 170 million euros, that is to say more than 20 billion XPF, was...
On 19th September, SNNC signed a MOU (Memorandum Of Understanding) for the capacity expansion project with the Governor of the Jeollanam-do Province, the Lord Mayor of the Gwangyang-city and with the Gwangyang Bay Area Free Economic Zone Commissioner With this MOU, SNNC will increase its annual nickel production capacity from 30,000 tons to 54,000 tons...
