Tag: nickel
a triple ministerial visit to respond to the nickel crisis – L’Express
The agenda is full for this triple ministerial visit. From Wednesday February 21 to Friday February 23, three members of the government are traveling to the New Caledonia archipelago: the…
In New Caledonia, Glencore puts its nickel plant on hold
Glencore announced this Monday that it would mothball the Koniambo Nickel SAS (KNS) ferronickel production plant in New Caledonia and seek a new industrial partner. The Swiss group believes that…
Utrecht councilor calls situation at nickel powder factory: ‘Very unsafe’
That publication prompted Volt, Stadsbelang Utrecht, VVD and Party for the Animals to ask questions to the council. According to Beau Nederhand, Volt committee member, there is a structural problem…
The metal factory in De Meern still has no control over carcinogenic nickel powder
Nickel powder is a substance that can cause cancer if inhaled. If the powder comes into contact with oxygen or normal air, it will spontaneously catch fire at room temperature.…
Metal factory in De Meern still has no control over carcinogenic nickel powder
Nickel powder is a substance that can cause cancer if inhaled. If the powder comes into contact with oxygen or normal air, it will spontaneously catch fire at room temperature.…
call for general strike in the nickel industry
New Caledonia’s main industrial workers’ union is calling for a general strike at the island’s three nickel refining plants on January 25. The three industrial sites are on the verge…
Explosion at a nickel factory in Indonesia: 13 dead, 46 injured
Thirteen dead and 38 injured are the latest, still provisional, casualty figures following the explosion this Sunday morning in a nickel processing factory on the island of Sulawesi, in eastern…
the government’s options for saving the nickel industry – L’Express
The government will try to save the mines in New Caledonia. It is on this archipelago of 270,000 inhabitants located in the north-east of Australia that the Ministers of the…
Nickel, aluminum… The EU will secure its supplies of raw materials – L’Express
On Monday, November 13, the EU approved a draft regulation to secure supplies of raw materials essential to European industry and reduce its dependence on China, by facilitating their extraction…
Colombia: in San José de Uré, the endless damage of the nickel mine
RFI is joining forces with the international investigative consortium Forbidden Stories to resume the work of Rafael Moreno, a journalist killed on October 16, 2022 in still unclear circumstances, in…