Nyrstar
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| Naamloze vennootschap (a Dutch public company structure) | |
| Traded as | Euronext: NYR |
| Industry | Metallurgy |
| Founded | 2007 |
| Headquarters | Zurich, Switzerland (corporate), Balen, Belgium (operational) |
Key people | Hilmar Rode (CEO),[1] Martyn Konig (Chairman) [2] |
| Products | Smelting and alloying of zinc and lead; sulphuric acid production; gold, silver and copper (as by-products) |
| Revenue | €2.7 billion (2016)[3] |
Number of employees | 4,300 (Feb 2017)[4] |
| Website | www.nyrstar.com |
Nyrstar N.V is a global multi-metals business, with a market leading position in zinc and lead and growing positions in other base and precious metals, such as copper, gold and silver. Nyrstar has mining and smelting operations located in Europe, the Americas and Australia. Nyrstar was created in 2007 by combining the zinc smelting and alloying operations of Zinifex (an Australian mining company, now merged with Oxiana Limited to form OZ Minerals) and Umicore (a Belgian materials technology company).[5] It is incorporated in Belgium and has its corporate office in Switzerland. Nyrstar is listed on Euronext Brussels.[6]
Operations
Nyrstar has 7 mines in total: in Canada, Mexico, Peru and the United States. Nyrstar has 6 smelters (in Australia, Belgium, France, Netherlands, and the United States) and 1 fumer in Norway. [6][7]
References
- ↑ http://www.nyrstar.com/investors/en/news/Pages/2064740.aspx. Missing or empty
|title=(help) - ↑ "Bel20 zet vlak parcours voort" (in Dutch). standaard.be.
- ↑ "Annual Report 2011". Nyrstar. Retrieved 30 May 2012.
- ↑ "AR2015 News Release".
- ↑ Nyrstar history on the Nystar website
- 1 2 "Bloomberg Business - Nyrstar Nv (NYR:EN Brussels) - Company Description". Bloomberg.
- ↑ "24hGold - Nyrstar: Formal launch of mining asset sale process". GlobeNewswire. 7 January 2016.