Tag: Sumitomo Metal Mining Co. Ltd
Sumitomo Metal forms new company
Sumitomo Metal Mining Co. Ltd (SMM) has reached a policy decision at its Board of Directors Meeting to establish a new company to take over operations in the manufacture of crude zinc oxide currently performed by SMM Shisaka Plant located in Shisakajima, Miyakubo cho, Imabari shi, Ehime.
Niihama nickel refinery shut for maintenance
Sumitomo Metal Mining Co. Ltd has announced that its Niihama Nickel Refinery will be shut for 4 days in May 2010 and 4 days in November 2010 for regular maintenance.
Sumitomo to increase nickel output
Sumitomo Metal Mining Co Ltd has announced plans to up its nickel production by 23% and keep its copper output relatively unchanged in the 2010 Japanese fiscal year.
Sumitomo seeks PEZA perks
Sumitomo Metal Mining Co. Ltd is seeking registration with the Philippine Economic Zone Authority (PEZA) and the proclamation of its USD 1.3 billion nickel processing plant project in Surigao del Norte as a special economic zone.
The Philippines: Taganito nickel project a go
Sumitomo Metal Mining Co. Ltd has announced that it has reached a decision to proceed with a project to produce nickel cobalt mixed sulfide in Taganito, the NE region of Mindanao Island in the Philippines.
Hydrometallurgical processing plant
Sumitomo Metal Mining Co. Ltd and local partner Nickel Asia Corp. are eyeing a bigger investment in a nickel plant project in Surigao del Norte.
Nickel surplus in 2008
Sumitomo Metal Mining Co. Ltd expects a global surplus in nickel in 2008 of 26,000tns, citing a slow recovery in stainless steel demand.
NiDI Japan appointment
Keiji Toyabe has been appointed manager of the Nickel Development Institute's (NiDI's) liaison office in Tokyo, Japan.
