Nickel Plant Closure
To shut down an obsolete nickel production facility (Nickel Plant) in Norilsk, Russia, and solve related environmental and social issues.
To modify the production chain and eliminate sources of air pollution at the obsolete nickel production facility.
The Nickel Plant is the Company’s oldest asset (commissioned back in 1942) located within the city of Norilsk, Russia.
The first ladle of converter
The first batch of
The Tank-house was officially opened.
The first
Construction of the
Construction of the
Construction of the sinter shop
Nickel Plant. View from helicopter
Nickel Plant. View from helicopter
Journalist’s visit of Norilsk and the Norilsk Nickel enterprise
Nornickel, Russia’s Ministry of Economic Development, Ministry of Industry and Trade, Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment, the government of Krasnoyarsk Territory and Norilsk City Administration signed an agreement on the Nickel Plant’s accelerated shutdown.
Production perspective:
Social perspective:
Unprecedented job creation and training programmes were implemented along with social programmes aimed at supporting the workers from the plant; due to the large-scale of the project, a package of measures was offered to the workers who wanted to continue working for the Company and for those wanting to retire.
Start of the Nickel Plant’s gradual shutdown.
Complete shutdown of all technological processes at the Nickel Plant.
Dismantling and conservation work will be performed at the Nickel Plant facilities in the Polar Division.
in the residential area in Norilsk
in the Polar Division total compared to 2015
within the city of Norilsk compared to 2015
at the Nickel Plant
in the Polar Division units and the Company’s other subsidiaries
at the Nickel Plant