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Nyrstar's Melbourne office to close Updated July 10, 2012 20:26:30 Video: Smelter assurance despite new tax (7pm TV News NSW) Map: Melbourne 3000 Lead smelter operator, Nyrstar is closing its Melbourne sales office. The company which runs the Port Pirie smelter in South Australia released a statement saying the Melbourne office will close at the end of October. It currently employs 12 people. The company says the work will be transferred to either Hobart or Zurich and will result in the departure of a number of staff. Nyrstar also released a statement today on the carbon tax, saying the tax is NOT a factor in any decision to redevelop the Port Pirie smelter to reduce lead emissions.

Nyrstar is implementing SAP enterprise resource planning to replace ten legacy systems. Formed in 2007 through the spin off of a business by Zinifex and Umicore, Nyrstar is the world's largest producer of zinc. It operates smelters and mines on 5 continents. The company chose SAP to help deal with the complexity of the merger and the sprawl of its business. Following the merger, Nyrstar ran duplicate systems for raw material procurement, sales, hedging and metal accounting. However the duplicate systems and processes for procurement would at times cause Nyrstar to purchase materials from a single supplier using different names and prices for those materials. The firm also lacked a single view of its metal sales. This confusion it said trickled down through all processes, leading to inefficiencies within the organization and would have limited the delivery of synergies resulting from growth and acquisitions. To help solve these problems Nyrstar has implemented the SAP ERP Financials package, the SAP Best Practices for Mining package and the SAP Treasury and Risk Management system. Nyrstar said that the systems will help it handle its complex raw materials contracts and also allow the company to capture all transactions within the supply chain and transfer them to its exposure management process. It said that it is also now better equipped to minimize the impact of metal price volatility on its business with increased visibility across all metal flows and centralized management of global risk exposures. The roll out has helped deliver a simplified IT architecture through retiring ten legacy systems. Nyrstar has been able to centralize and globalize its commercial operations too. A single sales and marketing organization works from one database and integrated processes and the global purchasing function has been consolidated in its headquarters. Mr Phil Palmer chief information officer at Nyrstar said that "By operating a lean, efficient, dynamic and flexible business we can focus on building a strong and sustainable future." (Sourced from www.computerworlduk.com)

Nyrstar urges more child blood lead tests Posted December 02, 2011 12:51:06 Related Story: Children's blood lead keeps falling at Port Pirie Map: Port Pirie 5540 The operator of Port Pirie's lead smelter, Nyrstar, says more parents in the South Australian city should be testing their children's blood lead levels. The latest quarterly figures from the Health Department show improvements across the board, including a 4 per cent increase of children below the acceptable upper limit. However, there was also a drop in the number of children being tested. Nyrstar general manager Glenn Poynter says if children are not being tested, it could be masking the real result. "We just want to see blood leads in the community as low as we can possibly get them, that's our goal," he said. "We are working to get to all children less than 10 [micrograms per decilitre] as quickly as possible. "We are just more interested in getting that continuous improvement and that's where these latest results show that that is exactly what we're getting." Mr Poynter says to achieve the goal, parents must be vigilant in testing their children. "For example, if parents, their first child went through the program without any issue at all they might be tempted for the second child not to enrol in the program," he said. "Every child is an individual and we do need to make sure we continue [to] test every child, otherwise what can happen is you skew the results perhaps the wrong way." Nyrstar says it can achieve a target of having 95 per cent of infants and preschool children in Port Pirie with acceptable blood lead levels by 2015.

Nyrstar NV and Sims Metal Management Limited announced that they had reached a conditional agreement to sell their respective interests in the secondary lead producing facility in Sydney, Australia of Australian Refined Alloys to companies associated with Renewed Metal Technologies for a total sale price of approximately AUD 80 million, subject to a customary working capital adjustment at completion. Completion of the sale is subject to the approval of the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission and the Foreign Investment Review Board. Subject to the parties receiving the requisite regulatory approvals, completion of the sale is expected to occur during early 2012. Following the sale, Nyrstar and SimsMM will retain ARA’s secondary lead producing facility in Melbourne, Australia which will continue to be operated as a 50:50 joint venture. ARA is a secondary lead producing 50:50 joint venture between Nyrstar and SimsMM. ARA has two facilities, one of which is located at Alexandria in Sydney and the other at Laverton North in Melbourne. Total lead production in 2010 was approximately 37,900 tonnes (Sydney 20,700 tonnes and Melbourne 17,200 tonnes). Renewed Metals Technologies is a privately held company that specialises in the recovery of renewable resources. RMT owns and operates a secondary lead producing facility in Wagga Wagga, New South Wales, Australia. For more information, visit www.rmt.au.com