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Nyrstar is a leading metallurgical industry known for mining and metal businesses, engaged in the mining, smelting and production of zinc, lead with other precious metals founded recently in the year of 2007. The primary focus of the company is on the production of zinc and is leading in its market along with lead but the rank is also growing for other base materials like gold, copper and gold, with the advancement in other resources also rapidly moving with urban and industrialized perspective. The company’s corporate office has been headquartered in Switzerland, while the operating head office is located in Belgium. Along with this, the company has also its presence over the US, Latin America, Canada, China, Australia, and other European countries. Currently, the company has a working strength of around 7000 people and all the work is being handled under the supervision of two of the main key personalities namely, Roland Junck as the Chief Executive Officer and Julien De Wilde as the Chairman of the company.

As long as the revenue generation of the company is being concerned, the listing of the company has been made on the markets of NYSE Euronext Brussels stock exchange with the amount of 3.348 billion € of revenue already generated by the company as per the data availability of the year of 2011. Around 1.12 million tons of zinc production has already been reached according to the estimation made at the end of 2011. The main product listing of the company includes the smelting of zinc, lead; manufacturing of sulphuric acid; along with the by-products production of copper, silver and gold. The list of the products continues with the galvanizing alloy(s) for the manufacturing of steel items which finds the usage in the applications of constructing, automobiles, steel industry and homely appliances; Semi-brass and cast usage in consumer production, electronic and hardware industry; dye cast alloys; semi produced items for roofs; chemicals in the medication products and paints. Production of cathodes (made of copper) for constructing, and transporting electronics equipments consumer-able items and other tools for industrial machines is also being carried out by the company. At last, manufacturing of sulphuric acid, lead for the production of batteries and other precious metals including cadmium, indium, gold, and silver.

The company structure consists of 3 main segmentations namely, Smelting, Mining and Other & Eliminations. Smelting division consists of Smelters for the process coverage including Auby, Balen, Budel, Clarksville, Port Pirie and Hobart. Mining involves Tennessee mines, Coricancha, Contonga and Pucarrajo mines, Campo Morado mine, Langlois mine and many more for the coverage of all the mines. Other & Eliminations includes the intra group transactions consisting of Galva 45 and GM Metal. A large number of the auxiliary units of the company can be found in the regions of Belgium, Australia, Barbados, Canada, Chile, France, Germany, Honduras, Mexico, the Netherlands, Peru, Spain, Switzerland, Tunisia and US.