On December 15 at 3:30 pm, three days after the first slag roll, furnace 2 delivered its first metal casting, carrying in its wake an appanage of feelings of satisfaction, delight, relief and accomplishment, not only by the management team and KNS 1,588 workforce but also both partners Glencore and SMSP. For ten months, under...
Company’s targets Do-Oulo Magazine highlighted early 2017, “NMC’s race against the clock”. In this 16th edition, NMC President Didier Ventura recalled the company’s goals, urging all staff to “move up a gear”, saying, “achieve 3.5 million tons of ore in 2017 is our ultimate goal. Current 650 jobs must remain. The key to success is...
A Korean delegation of senior Executives, representing subcontracting companies to the Caledonian SNNC Plant in Korea, was on a visit in Noumea this week. Their main objective: to know the different characteristics of Caledonian nickel ore, in terms of quantity and quality, as their own employees manipulate it and handle it every day in South...
Céline DELPECH is Manager of Human Resources at Cotransmine since January 2017. Prior to joining Cotransmine, from 2010 to 2016, Céline was Consultant in Social and Human Relations at Vale NC Mine Department, before becoming a Business Partner in HR Projects in the same company. As for her qualifications, after obtaining a Scientific Baccalaureate, Céline...
Gun KIM joined NMC as Management Control Director on 1st October 2013. A function that allowed him to carry a 3-year stay in the mining branch of the SMSP in New Caledonia, far from his Korea native. Responsibilities which enabled him to spend 3 years’ stay within the SMSP’s Mining Branch in New Caledonia, far...
Cotransmine Kouaoua Site has received its new loading platform. Brand new, it comprises a 12 meters long berthing platform and a gateway dimensioned for the access of a vehicle. The completion of the wharf construction works marks the third and final phase of Kouaoua marine base’s overall rehabilitation works, launched in 2012, with the refurbishment...
At the request of its Steering Committee, MEDEF-NC has organized in May, a series of conferences, with support of its mining and industrial nickel operators and associate members, to share their actual operations state of affairs and their business strategies. It is a series of conferences, intended only for MEDEF-NC associate members The conferences were...
Thursday, April 28, in response to the invitation of the New Caledonia Federation of Industries (FINC), André DANG, SMSP CEO, along with Marcel THOMAS, SMSP Secretary General, Karl THERBY, SOFINOR Chief Financial Officer and Laurent FOGLIANI, Director of Communications at KNS, took turns at the microphone, to introduce the various operation activities and financial results...
SMSP was invited to an information meeting organized by the Comité de soutien pour la doctrine nickel (Nickel Doctrine Support Committee), held on Wednesday February 24, in the auditorium of Koné’s new cultural complex. More than 200 people came to listen and follow SMSP presentation, including the financial results of mining and metallurgical subsidiaries of...
Wednesday, January 20, 2016 at 14:30 the Koniambo Nickel’s Team conducted the first casting of Furnace n°1, after its rebuilding, during which operation 45 tons of ferronickel were produced on the Vavouto Industrial Site. The Furnace n°1 was shut down in 26 December 2014, due to a molten metal leakage. After investigations, the Koniambo Nickel...
