Cotransmine the SMSP Shipping Company has been delivered two new tug boats intended for Kouaoua and Nakéty operating centers. Currently both centers perform loading operations with two tug boats, i.e. Claude II and Pierre Edouard and 5 barges including 3 leased to a North Province shipping company. The new tugs are named after Bogota and...
Souviens-toi (Remember)! It’s the official motto, and the headline of a Review whose first edition was published in November, to commemorate the three men Pidjot. Roch is Plilemon’s big brother, himself father of Raphael. They come from the Pidjot Customary Clan, one of the eight clans that make up this tribe in the city. They...
June 11, 2015, Koniambo Nickel received 3 dumpers of 150-tons loading capacity, relieved by the Port Teams with the assistance of Komatsu’s Technical Staff. It was an outstanding and impressive operation, taking into account the size of the parts to be unloaded from the ore carrier’s holds. As a result, Koniambo Nickel becomes the first...
SMSP has organized along with the New Caledonian Chamber of Commerce and Industry, the Economic Rendezvous Event which was held on June 4, 2015, at the Noumea CCI Conference Room. During this forum, André Dang Van Nha and his team have presented various headlines including the company’s history, its long term industrial strategy, the development...
Established in September 1990, Sofinor is a semi-public company and the economic tool which has enabled the Northern Province to repurchase SMSP Company. Sofinor is owned by the Northern Province with 85% shares while 15% are owned by four SAEML including Sud minier, côte océanienne, Grand Nord et espaces de l’Ouest. In December 2013, the...
Friday, 6th March 2015, Mr. Paul Néaoutyine, President of the Northern Province and Mr. Oh Joon Kwon, POSCO CEO, along with Mr. André Dang Van Nha, SMSP CEO and key NC Officials, proceeded to the Official opening ceremony of SNNC Pyrometallurgical Plant’s Second Production Line, located at Gwangyang industrial site. More than fifty members including...
François Hollande, The President of the French Republic visited the Northern Plant on Monday November 17, 2014, joined by George Pau-Langevin, Minister of Overseas, Paul Néaoutyine, President of the Northern Province, Ivan Glasenberg, Chief Executive Officer, Glencore, André Dang Van Nha, President, SMSP, Peter Hancock, President, Koniambo Nickel and Vincent Bouvier, High Commissioner of the...
Koniambo Nickel launched a major recruitment campaign to fill the technical positions needed for the operational phase of its pyrometallurgical plant. 150 posts are published in different sectors: mechanical workshop, mechanical fixed installations, mechanical mobile machinery, industrial electricity and power supply, mine and plant operations, engineering / industrial design, building maintenance, geology and mineral processing,...
KNS has successfully processed this day Saturday, February 8, 2014 at 5:30 pm the first nickel tapping of the second production line of its metallurgical plant. With five days ahead of the schedule set, this milestone crowns the commissioning phase of the second production line. All facilities of the metallurgical plant have now successfully passed...
The construction of the second production line of the Northern Plant is now achieved. This implies the demobilization of the staff and equipment affected to the construction and launches the commissioning phase. The demobilization will continue throughout 2014 to end up in December 2014 with the last step, the closed down of the camp.
