ABOUT HARJAVALTA:

Harjavalta is located in Western Finland on the territory of Northern Europe’s largest industrial park. NNH is integrated into the Company’s nickel assets (Australia, South Africa, Botswana and Kola MMC)

NNH is one of the most highly diversified nickel companies in the world:

Nickel Products: nickel cathodes, nickel briquettes, nickel powder, nickel sulphate, nickel hydroxycarbonate, nickel carbonate, nickel hydroxide, nickel sulphate solution;
Copper remaining after leaching process (cuprous cake) contains the array of precious metals found in the initial feed material (Au, Ag, Pt, Pd, Rh etc.);
Cobalt sulphate solution.

NNH is the largest company in the world in terms of high-quality crystallized nickel sulphate production (6 thousand tons a year). Surrounding infrastructure is well-developed due to proximity of industrial cluster. The firm fully complies with the European environmental protection standards and has a very good industrial safety record. NNH features high levels of automation in all production sectors.

NNH uses the most advanced hydrometallurgical processes in the world: atmospheric and autoclave oxidizing leaching, atmospheric refining in nitrogen atmosphere, three types of liquid extraction (calcium, cobalt and nickel), autoclave hydrogen reduction, nickel electroextraction, pure nickel chemicals production technologies for high-tech industries.

Harjavalta uses unique new generation high-performance equipment: high-volume autoclaves with titanium plating and internal titanium elements, Oktop chemical reactors, Superflow high-performance thickeners, Outotec extractors, Larox continuous operation filter-presses, Pannevis vacuum-filters and other equipment. In terms of the general technological level, almost all equipment currently used by the firm is of the highest quality. Production processes are fully automated and equipped with computer control systems.

ABOUT THE COMPANY
PJSC “MMC “NORILSK NICKEL” is a diversified mining and metallurgical company, the world’s largest producer of refined nickel and palladium and a leading producer of platinum, cobalt, copper and rhodium. The company also produces gold, silver, iridium, selenium, ruthenium and tellurium.

The production units of “NORILSK NICKEL” Group include Polar Division, located at the Norilsk Industrial District on Taimyr Peninsula, and Kola Mining and Metallurgical Company located on the Kola Peninsula in Russia as well as Harjavalta nickel refinery in Finland.

PJSC “MMC “NORILSK NICKEL” shares are listed on the Moscow and on the Saint-Petersburg Stock Exchanges. PJSC “MMC “NORILSK NICKEL” ADRs trade over the counter in the US and on the London and Berlin Stock Exchanges.

MMC Norilsk Nickel summarizes the results of Harjavalta operations