Eramet ambitions to be a responsible mining company and sets itself the target to contribute to the well-being of people, the environment and the planet. Thus, building on the long-term success of its Open Innovation program, Eramet is launching an Innovation Challenge focused on a key challenge for humankind: preserving biodiversity. Invasive alien species [...]
30 October 2024
Last June, the Norwegian Parliament approved the government's request to explore the seabed, with the ultimate aim of extracting critical metals for the energy transition, defense and aerospace development. A decision that left a lasting impression and put the subject of deep sea mining back in the spotlight.What is deep sea mining?Metals critical to the [...]
18 October 2024
Preserving biodiversity is one of Eramet's major objectives and is enshrined in the Group's "Act for Positive Mining" roadmap: “Integrate biodiversity preservation within all our activities and develop plans towards an overall net positive contribution to biodiversity.” In 2021, the Group joined the act4nature international initiative. In 2024, new voluntary commitments will be developed [...]
26 September 2024
From September 4 to 6, Eramet took part in the Water Congress, the international congress on water management in mining and industrial processes. Ingrid Oyarzún, President of Eramet Ideas, chaired this 12th edition over 3 days in Santiago, Chile, accompanied by her team. Representatives of Eramine, Eramet's subsidiary in Argentina, and Christine Dénériaz, Group [...]
13 September 2024
Building on the success of its Femmes d’Avenir programme in supporting women entrepreneurs, rolled out in Gabon in 2022 and Senegal in 2023, Eramet is extending the scheme to Argentina. The programme remains a big success in Africa. In Argentina, the Femmes d’Avenir programme is being set up through a partnership between Eramet and [...]
17 July 2024
Eramet has just published its Integrated Report 2023, a 40-page summary document that provides an overview of the Group's activities, presents its strategic priorities and commitments, as well as its financial and non-financial results. The integrated approach of this report, the fruit of collaboration between several Group departments (Finance, Strategy, CSR, HR, Risk Management [...]
19 April 2024
In October 2023, the Group announced its decision to halt its project to study the production of rutile in Akonolinga in Cameroon. As a responsible mining company, Eramet has embarked on a gradual process of social demobilisation, by supporting the teams, and environmental demobilisation, with the rehabilitation of exploration sites. The titles and knowledge [...]
11 March 2024
On February 28, Eramet announced the launch of "Lire pour l'avenir" (Read for the future), an educational project in Gabon carried out in partnership with the French association Bibliothèques Sans Frontières (Libraries Without Borders) and the Gabonese Ministry of Education. Thanks to this initiative, 6,500 students from six high schools located around the Transgabonese [...]
29 February 2024
Eramet has published its very first Human Rights report, designed as a guide to the Group's commitment to respecting the fundamental rights of all its stakeholders: employees, partners and communities. The report includes : Message from Christel Bories, CEO of the Eramet group Eramet Executive Committee members' views on respect for human rights Key [...]
22 December 2023
After its successful launch in Gabon in 2022, the "Femmes d'Avenir" mentoring program with Women In Africa is continuing in Senegal. The Group’s contribution to socio-economic development in the countries where it operates goes beyond the sphere of mining activity. On October 19 in Dakar, the "Femmes d'Avenir" program was inaugurated in [...]
19 October 2023
To better communicate its ESG progress indicators, Eramet has developed a brand new tool to make it easier to read its CSR performance. Since 2018, Eramet has been implementing an ambitious strategy, combining operational excellence and CSR excellence: the Group has set itself the goal of being a committed, civic-minded partner that contributes to [...]
27 September 2023
Faced with customers who are increasingly concerned about the origin of the products they buy, and more and more sensitive to environmental and social issues, Eramet has launched EraTrace. With this online traceability platform, the Group is increasing its transparency to customers across the entire value chain of its products. Our customers ask us [...]
25 September 2023
Saturday June 24 saw the closing of the 1st class of Femmes d'Avenir (Women of the Future), a women's entrepreneurship program designed to help Gabonese women entrepreneurs develop their skills and gain access to significant development opportunities.As a result of a partnership between Eramet, Women in Africa and the Gabonese government, Femmes d'Avenir is a program [...]
28 June 2023
In 2022, Eramet significantly increased its contribution to the economy of the regions in which it operates, up to €3.3 billion compared with €1.8 billion in 2021. The figures for local purchases and payroll also rose, reaching over €2 billion and €0.6 billion respectively. More than 127,940 people have benefited from the Group's social [...]
22 June 2023
The mining industry is changing, and people are now talking about "responsible mining". Do you think this is possible, given the impact of mining on the environment? Christine Dénériaz: Yes, of course! Eramet strives to do this every day, and it's part of our corporate purpose. From a global environmental point of view, we know that [...]
5 June 2023
Respecting natural ecosystems and biodiversity on our mining sites is a major issue for Eramet. On the SLN site, a Group subsidiary, it takes shape in the preservation of Pleioluma butinii, a plant threatened with extinction. What is Pleioluma butinii? Located on the Tiébaghi massif, where SLN operates a mining center, Pleioluma butinii is a shrub that can grow [...]
30 May 2023
Finalized in 2018, the IRMA Standard establishes an international standard to assess the performance of operating mines from a social and environmental point of view. This standard was developed over a ten-year period through a public consultation process involving more than 100 entities and various organizations, including mining companies, customers and downstream end-users of [...]
11 May 2023
In its "Women, Business and the Law 2023" ranking on economic parity, the World Bank gave Gabon a score of 95, making it one of the countries in Africa with the greatest potential for economic development for women. Eramet has a historic presence in Gabon through its two subsidiaries: Comilog, which will celebrate its 60th anniversary this [...]
17 April 2023
Thanks to its long-standing commitment to reducing its impact on the environment and climate, Eramet Norway is among the best companies in its sector with a carbon footprint that is less than 40% of the average. At the end of March 2023, Eramet Norway was rewarded for its efforts in this area by Enova with a [...]
6 April 2023
Gender equality is a long-term commitment for the Eramet Group. Women account for 18.5% of the total workforce1, and 25.7% of its management workforce. Action has been taken both Group-wide and locally in order to promote our careers to women and highlight the provisions of our collective gender-equality agreements, which have been signed at numerous sites [...]
31 March 2023
Eramet, a historical player in Gabon, was present at the first One Forest Summit, which took place on March 1 and 2 in Libreville at the initiative and in the presence of the Gabonese and French Presidents. This event invited heads of state, organizations, institutions, NGOs and companies to address the issue of the preservation [...]
7 March 2023
Nearly 70 million euros: this is the amount of subsidies that the European Union has just awarded to Eramet to support its electric vehicle battery recycling project.Eramet set itself a challenge: to develop the first closed-loop lithium-ion battery recycling unit in Europe. Since then, Eramet has successfully demonstrated its ability to recycle all the valuable [...]
19 January 2023
As part of the Industry Net Zero Accelerator initiative, which brings together a community of industrial companies, international organizations and researchers around the decarbonization of industry, the World Economic Forum is publishing a white paper entitled "The ‘No-Excuse’ Framework to Accelerate the Path to Net-Zero Manufacturing and Value Chains."Eramet, which has already reduced its carbon [...]
5 January 2023
Eramet is now among the leading companies in its “smelting, refining and metal forming” business sector with an A- score (up from a B in 2021 and a D in 2019), reflecting its aggressive efforts to combat climate change. This year, the Group’s performance in these ratings, which assess the performance of more than 5,800 [...]
15 December 2022
- A first for the Lékédi Biodiversity Foundation, created last year, one of whose objectives is to contribute to a better understanding of major environmental issues - At the heart of the exchanges between specialists gathered at Lékédi Park: the commitments to Climate and Biodiversity, the roots of our future. This Thursday, the first edition [...]
15 December 2022
On November 25, the Connected Concession program was selected as one of the four winners of the 2022 Change Netexplo award, which recognizes the best projects combining sustainable change and technological innovation out of 70 applications. This is a source of great pride for the teams involved in this pioneering project in Eramet's digital transformation, [...]
29 November 2022
Once again this year, Eramet is listed as one of the 250 most responsible companies in France by Le Point and Statista, and enters the top 20 in the "Social" category.Eramet's CSR performance was recognized again this year by Le Point and Statista: in the "Social" category, Eramet is part of the top 20 for the first time, and [...]
28 November 2022
Eight years after launching its mine, GCO has just returned 85 hectares of revegetated former mining land to the Senegalese Department of Water and Forests – a first for the country.In 2014 began the adventure of Grande Côte Operations (Senegalese subsidiary of the Eramet group), then a brand new mineral sands mine in the heart [...]
16 September 2022
In response to Indonesia’s vision of strengthening Environment, Social and Governance (ESG) principles in Indonesian mining operations, the Initiative for Responsible Mining Assurance (IRMA) and Eramet, a global French mining company, along with representatives of industry and civil society organizations, participated in an industry-focused forum led by the Indonesian Coordinating Ministry of Maritime Affairs [...]
6 September 2022
It's done! All the Group's mining and metallurgical sites are now ISO 50001 certified, a standard that aims to reduce a site's energy consumption and CO2 footprint.With the recent certification of TiZir Titanium & Iron (TTI) in Norway, all the Group's mining and metallurgical sites are now ISO 50001 certified, a process that Eramet began [...]
28 July 2022
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