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...
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...
Following the validation of the technical feasibility study, the execution and financing plans, the partners SMSP and POSCO sign the agreement on the expansion of the ferronickel production unit. The production unit in Gwangyang, with an annual nominal capacity of 30,000 tons of nickel metal contained in ferronickel, will increase its capacity of 24,000 additional...
The 17th SMSP/POSCO/NMC/SNNC Technical and Financial Committee was held in Noumea from 4th to 6th December 2012. On the agenda of the Technical Committee was found the ore’s quality, granulometry, demurrage outcomes and the annual program of production vessels. The Financial Committee has meanwhile, dealt with fundamental issues such as business plan of NMC and...
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...
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,...
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...
SMSP / POSCO partnership decides to proceed to the expansion of its ferronickels production capacity. The SNNC Plant, with a nominal capacity of 30,000 tons of nickel metal contained in ferronickels, will increase its capacity of 24,000 additional tons, that is to say a total capacity of 54,000 tons. A second line, comprising a new...
The implementation of the double shift has allowed NMC to reach the objective of production, that is 1.763.986 tonnes of saprolite ore, with the creation of 118 additional jobs in mining sites. The volume of nickel metal contained in ferronickel produced by SNNC in 2010 is 20.512 tonnes with sales to POSCO reaching 21.388 tonnes.
