Nornickel hires new production chief

Nornickel has hired Sergey Stepanov, former CEO at titanium producer VSMPO, as senior vice president in charge of production, it said on Tuesday.

Nornickel’s previous operations boss Sergey Dyachenko left the company in March as part of a management restructuring after a number of environmental and industrial accidents at the world’s largest producer of palladium and major nickel producer.

(By Anastasia Lyrchikova and Polina Devitt; Editing by David Goodman)