SMSP's News
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.
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 samples."
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 North Plant by participating to its financing. A loan amounting to 170 million euros, that is to say more than 20 billion XPF, was awarded to SMSP. For more details...
SNNC has signed a MOU with the local governments for capacity expansion project. The document stipulates that SNNC will introduce environmental friendly facilities in the project and the local Korean governments will do their best efforts to support the project both administratively and financially. For more details...
“European steel manufacturers must react, warns Moll who suggests three solutions. By 2015, they could proceed with a consolidation, reducing their capacity from 8.3 to 5.7 Mt. This would allow to their production capacity to exceed 80%. Another way is to invest in upstream, which could reduce the price volatility of alloys. Posco, the Korean number one of stainless steel, has its own ferronickel plant supplied by a partnership with the SMSP in New Caledonia”. See the article "L'Inox dérouille".