In 2017, the facility reached 81.7% of the plan while fully complying with environmental and safety standards and supporting the community in the neighboring town of Pobugskoe, and fulfilling its labour contracts. Results were impacted by the modernisation of furnaces in the first half of 2017. The recent conflict in Eastern Ukraine had no impact on the operations of PFP.
In 2017, PFP processed 1,280 million metric tons of wet ore into 15,300 dry metric tons of nickel in ferronickel. In 2017, USD 2.18 million was spent on repairing technical equipment aimed at increasing production efficiency. Capital expenditure reached USD 3.88 million. In 2018, the investment plan will be focused on production performance support and increasing the gas cleaning units efficiency performance.
