Research and development in Russia
| In 2006-2007 research and development assets of Norilsk Nickel in Russia were consolidated into a separate business unit. A new entity was formed on the base of Gipronickel Research and Project Development Institute located in St. Petersburg, with two branches in the cities of Norilsk and Monchegorsk., thus consolidating all existing R&D divisions of Norilsk Nickel in Russia: Norilsk Project Institute and Mining and Metallurgical Research Centre in Norilsk, Project Development and Research Centre of Kola MMC, and two science and technology libraries in Norilsk and Monchegorsk. The major goal of this reorganization is to increase the efficiency of the in-house scientific research and technology development thus promoting Norilsk Nickel leadership in global mining and metal production industry. The reorganization is aimed at improving asset management, reducing R&D costs and opening ways to conducting research on a contract basis. This transformation is a part of MMC Norilsk Nickel’s program of management improvement and general corporate restructuring. Gipronickel Institute, located in St. Petersburg, Russia, is one of the largest research and project development organizations in the Russian non-ferrous metal industry (521 employees). The list of its clients includes mining and metallurgical complexes, chemical plants, concentrators and sinter plants, and a number of other parties engaged in the production of metals and chemicals. Official web-site of the Institute: http://www.nickel.spb.ru/indexen.shtml
, located in Norilsk, Russia, is MMC Norilsk Nickel’s general designer. It was established in 1938 as a project group, and in 1968 this group was transformed into an institute. Its main activities include engineering survey and designing of production and auxiliary facilities for the Company, as well as various residential and municipal buildings and structures of Norilsk industrial district and Taimyr. |
