Kavadarci
Euronickel Kavadarci
The Euronickel pyro-metallurgical plant, Following exploration in the 1950’s and testing of ores in the 1960’s the company (then known as FENI) began to build furnaces and associated infrastructure in the 1970’s. The first nickel in the form of ferronickel produced was in 1982 from locally mined ores and the annual output was around 2,000 tonnes.
Euronickel Industries Completes $100 Million Investment and Second Furnace Restart
Euronickel has completed one of the largest foreign investments in North Macedonia, on time and within budget, during what has been a transformative year. Euronickel has secured the jobs of over 1,000 people from the region around the plant
*https://www.euronickel.com/euronickel-industries-completes-100-million-investment-and-second-furnace-restart/
Image photography
By Viktor Macha in 2005.
Plant facts and figures
The plant have an annual capacity of 50000 tons.
The following processes are conducted in the plant:
- Mining
This plant produces the following type of products:
- Coal&Iron&Minerals
Full description
Explorations of rich nickel deposits in Northern Macedonia have been carried out since the 1950s, especially at the Rzhanovo locality in the south part of the country.
The nickel smelting and processing plant was constructed in 1983 and is connected to the opencast mine in Rzhanov by the worlds longest conveyor belt (47 kilometers long)
The heart of the smelter consists of two rotary kilns with an adjoining electric sub-merged arc furnace built by DEMAG, a pair of LD converters with a capacity of 35 tons and an electric arc holding furnace from the American manufacturer PECOR.
The original brand FENI Industries was renamed tp Euronickel Indsutries after a change of tje owner in 2019 and today, with almost a thousand employees, it is one of the pillars of North Macedonian economy.