Moscow, 25 June 2025 — Nornickel announces the launch of the Digital Quality Mark, a new service that provides customers with information about a specific metal batch via a digital label on the finished product. In the future, this service will provide a much wider range of data about Nornickel's metals, including quality certificates, composition, carbon footprint data, and even videos of each stage of the production chain — all accessible via a QR code.

In its initial phase, the Digital Quality Mark service has been implemented at Kola MMC to label nickel, enabling access to comprehensive information about the products. To launch the service, the Company undertook significant work to digitalise processes throughout the entire production chain, including the automation of accounting and control systems and equipment modernisation.

By scanning the unique QR code, users can now instantly access key information such as product name, manufacturing method, grade and batch number, shipping unit ID, gross and net weight, and the legal address of the manufacturing plant. The introduction of digital labelling optimises internal processes, minimises manual labour, and eliminates errors.

The labelling is also valuable for customers, who can not only retrieve information quickly via the QR code but also use the mark for their own internal operations. Upon receiving the marked finished products, they can scan the QR code to automatically enter the data into their own inventory management systems.

“The information currently embedded in the QR code is foundational, and we are working to expand it. The portal linked to the digital mark can be populated with quality certificates, composition details, carbon footprint information, and even videos of each production stage, as well as a feedback feature. Furthermore, we plan to extend QR code labelling to other Company products in the future,” said Dmitry Sannikov, Director of the Innovation and Digital Technology Department at Kola MMC.

“The label is the face of our product; it’s the first thing the customer sees. The ability to quickly scan information about a metal batch using any mobile phone can simplify processes at the end-user’s facility, which we expect will make our product even more attractive. Following approvals from international exchanges, the new labels have appeared on Nornickel's products,” commented Dmitry Tyukin, Project Manager of Nornickel's Market Development Department.

Nornickel launches "Digital Quality Mark" for its metal products