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Press kit October 2013
ERAMET and SLN (Société Le Nickel),
main patrons of the exhibition
KANAK, L'ART EST UNE PAROLE
at the musée du quai Branly, in Paris, from 10.15.13 to 01.26.14 at the Centre Culturel Tjibaou, in Nouméa, from 03.22.14 to 06.15.14
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ERAMET is a French mining and metallurgical group that bases its operations and business development on a sustainable, profitable and balanced growth strategy. The Group has close to 15,000 employees on five continents and is a global market leader in each of its business activities: nickel, manganese and specialty alloys.
Founded in 1880, Société Le Nickel (SLN) is a subsidiary of the ERAMET group and the world leader in ferronickel production. SLN is a socially responsible company involved in New Caledonian society and concerned about its human and natural environments. It has the distinction of being the largest private employer in the archipelago with 2,200 employees.
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ERAMET AND SLN, MAIN PATRONS OF THE
“KANAK, L’ART EST UNE PAROLE” EXHIBITION
ERAMET and SLN’s sponsorship: an obvious choice
The ERAMET group, which places great importance on dialogue between cultures, and its
subsidiary as SLN (Société Le Nickel), which has firm roots in New Caledonia, are proud to
support the exhibition “Kanak, l’art est une parole”.
With a presence on the 5 continents and in more than 20 countries, the ERAMET
group is firmly established in New Caledonia, with its subsidiary Société Le Nickel
(SLN). It is established from the North to the South and along both East and West
coasts and has been mining and beneficiating nickel there for more than 130 years.
Proud of their economic, social and cultural commitments, the Group and its
subsidiary, which have incorporated their understanding and respect of local cultures
into their core values, wished to actively take part in this exhibition in order to
encourage the discovery and sharing of the Kanak culture. This support is also a
commitment in favor of New Caledonia development.
For many years ERAMET and SLN have been involved in many initiatives and
sponsoring actions in New Caledonia, particularly in the cultural field, for example
with the Museum of New Caledonia. More recently, SLN contributed to the
renovation of the Museum of Maritime History in Nouméa. For 20 years it has also
organized the annual “Nickels de l’Initiative” to support charity, cultural, community
and other projects.
Dual sponsorship for exposure in two
exceptional locations
The exhibition will open at Musée du quai Branly
from October 15th, 2013 to January 26th, 2014. It
will then travel to the Tjibaou Cultural Centre in
Nouméa from March 22nd to June 15th, 2014.
ERAMET and SLN’s sponsorship will support the
exhibition for its entire duration in these two
exceptional locations.
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The “KANAK, L’ART EST UNE PAROLE” exhibition
This exhibition is the largest ever held on Kanak culture, bringing together more than
300 exceptional works and documents from public collections in Europe (Austria,
Switzerland, France, Germany and Italy) and New Caledonia in a 2 000 m² space. It features
many previously unseen and spectacular pieces, great traditional works from the world of
Kanak art: wooden carvings from the Grand Huts, jade ceremonial axes, pole sculptures and
a diverse selection of statuettes and ornaments.
22 years after “De jade et de nacre” dedicated to Kanak culture and presented in Nouméa
and in Paris by the Réunion des Musées Nationaux, the musée du quai Branly proposes an
exhibition based on entirely original information and a corpus of objects not previously
seen. It is also based on new data: museographical (a complete inventory of the objects in
the world's public collections, carried out over 30 years of research), vernacular (the
recording of immaterial Kanak culture which has been carried out over the last 10 years) and
resulting from anthropological and historical data.
The exhibition revisits Kanak cultural heritage through a main sequence entitled “the five
faces”, which features Kanak speech
extensively, and a parallel sequence entitled
“reflections”, that describes the evolution of the
Western view of the Kanak world through a
compilation of witness accounts.
Emmanuel Kasarhérou, Head of the Overseas
Section at the musee du quai Branly, former
Director of the Agency for the Development of
the Kanak Culture and the Tjibaou Cultural Centre
in New Caledonia, and Roger Boulay, ethnologist,
specialist in Kanak heritage, are the two curators
of the exhibition.
Ceremonial flèche faîtière of great house
SLN metallurgical plant (Doniambo plant) in Nouméa.
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ERAMET in figures
15,000 employees
Presence in 20 countries
and on the 5 continents
47 industrial sites
€3.4 billion turnover
€641 million industrial
investments in 2012
ERAMET, A PLAYER GROUP
IN THE INDUSTRIAL WORLD TRANSFORMATION
ERAMET is a French mining and metallurgical group and a
world leader in its business sectors, among which alloying
metals and high-quality metallurgy. Its expansion and
diversification are in line with a policy of responsible,
sustainable development and respect for local cultures.
In addition, ERAMET has major research and development
projects in new business lines with high growth potential
(titanium, zircon, etc.), as well as recycling.
The activity is structured around 3 divisions:
Manganese: ERAMET is the world’s second-largest producer of manganese alloys for
steel production and the world’s leading producer of manganese chemical
derivatives. ERAMET’s subsidiary COMILOG operates the manganese mine at Moanda
in Gabon. The ore is then prepared in the metallurgical and transformed in ERAMET’s
metallurgical and chemical plants in France, China, Europe and United States.
Nickel: ERAMET is the world’s second-largest producer of ferronickel thanks to the
mines and metallurgical plant of its
subsidiary, SLN. A part of the nickel
is then transformed in the
Sandouville refinery, near Le Havre.
Alloys: Through its subsidiaries
Aubert & Duval and Erasteel,
ERAMET develops, designs and
transforms special steels and
superalloys as well as aluminum
and titanium alloys, particularly for
the aeronautics, energy,
transportation or health sectors. These markets require high added value
metallurgical skills.
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SLN, A KEY ROLE AT THE HEART OF NEW CALEDONIA
Société Le Nickel (SLN) is an ERAMET Group subsidiary specializing in ferronickel production.
Its activities are based in New Caledonia. This French overseas territory has a
specific status. Located off the coast of Australia, almost 20,000 km from
France, it has 250,000 inhabitants over an area of around 18,500 km².
SLN’s activities are spread over Grande Terre, New Caledonia’s main
island. In addition to mining operations, SLN processes nickel ore in
its Doniambo metallurgical plant near Nouméa. A new electricity plant
should be built soon to power the plant and give SLN an efficient,
competitive and more environmentally-friendly source of energy.
SLN is New Caledonia’s biggest private employer with 2,200 employees, 97% of
whom are New Caledonian, and generates 6,000 indirect and inferred jobs across
the territory. Equipment drivers, geologists, lab workers, engineers, metallurgists,
miners, maintenance workers and industrial designers are among the almost
250 professions that share SLN’s specific mining and metallurgical corporate culture.
Moreover, SLN is the only mining group with bases in New Caledonia that involves all
3 provinces (North, South and Islands) in its capital and governance. Through their
holding company, STCPI, the provinces hold a 34% stake in SLN and own 4% of
ERAMET shares. They actively contribute to the definition of the Group’s strategy in
New Caledonia.
SLN, New Caledonia’s biggest contributor in terms of jobs and local economic fallout, is
therefore a major metallurgical player in the territory. A driver of the local economy, SLN
intends to beneficiate nickel, a natural resource, on site, and so contribute to the island’s
economic and human development.
Implantations SLN
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NICKEL: HOW AND WHY?
The general public is unfamiliar with nickel as it is rarely used pure, but mostly in an alloy
with other metals. Yet the metal is essential to our daily lives. Nickel has a rich set of
properties (high temperature resistance, mechanical strength, magnetic properties, etc.) and
is endlessly recyclable. It is mainly used to make stainless steel in combination with chrome.
The wide range of end uses cover every sector of modern life, including power generation,
lifts, ramps, bodywork, tanks, taps, computers, cellphones and coins.
From ore extraction to final use: the nickel cycle
Nickels salts (liquid nickel chloride)
Nickel salts (anhydrous nickel chloride)
High purity nickel metal
Ferronickel
Nickel matte
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Nickel is extracted from SLN’s mining centers in New Caledonia.
The ore is unloaded from the 3 ships chartered all year by SLN in the Doniambo transformation plant. There it is stored, dried, charred by smelting reduction and then processed to make ferronickel (80% of the production) and nickel matte (20% of production).
Ferronickel is marketed for stainless steel production.
Nickel matte is transported to the Sandouville plant, close to Le Havre (France) and transformed into high purity nickel metal and nickel salts. This unit also recovers the cobalt contained in the matte.
Eurotungstène plant produces powders containing cobalt.
The products made from nickel ore are sold on markets for a wide variety of end uses:
Stainless steel: household appliances and equipment (sinks, pans, ovens, etc.), production tools for agriculture & food, pharmaceuticals, surgical equipment, basic industries (chemicals, paper, petrochemicals, power generation), transport (trucks, catalytic converters, bodywork, etc.)
Nickel-based alloys: high-tech industries, e.g. aerospace, nuclear, oil and gas sectors
Electroplating (linings & coatings) for the automotive sector, household equipment, etc. and catalysis (catalyst manufacturing).
Many other markets: electronics (computers, cellphones, tablets, etc.), rechargeable nickel and Li-ion batteries (portable electronics / hybrid and electric vehicles), pigments (e.g. cobalt blue), water treatment and pharmacy.
A priority in nickel mining: protecting environmental heritage
SLN strives to protect the island’s exceptional environmental
heritage through increasingly responsible operations. It takes
special care over the restoration and revegetation of its mining
and industrial sites. Over the past four decades, SLN has
developed innovative methods that make it a real pioneer in this
field, not just in the ERAMET group but for the entire mining community. Tailings (soil
excavated during mining) are stored, divided into terraces then revegetated. Novel
techniques have also been implemented to manage runoff water and return clean water to
the natural habitat. These constant restoration efforts help to keep sites safe, reintegrate
them into the landscape, combat erosion and protect biodiversity.
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Practical information
Learn more by visiting:
http://www.eramet.com/en http://www.sln.nc/
ERAMET press contact:
Marion Margot, Director of Communications, ERAMET group + 33 (0)1 45 38 41 91 / + 33 (0)6 72 27 46 89
SLN press contact: Dominique Katrawa, General Secretary, SLN [email protected]
Practical information about the exhibition:
Musée du quai Branly 206-218, rue de l'Université 75007 Paris Tel: +33 (0)1 56 61 72 72 Access Metro line 9, Alma Marceau station RER C, Pont de l'Alma station Openings Tuesday, Wednesday and Sunday from 11 am to 7 pm Thursday to Saturday from 11 am to 9 pm.
Kanak mask from New Caledonia