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, drying and storage) through the loading in New Caledonia in direction to Gwangyang, the unloading, the mixing and the metallurgical manufactoring, to the trading and sale of the final product, the ferronickel.