company structure traded as euronext nyr industry metallurgy founded 2007 headquarters zurich switzerland corporate balen belgium operational key people bill scotting ceo 1 martyn konig chairman 2 products smelting and alloying of zinc and lead ; sulphuric acid production ; gold silver and copper as by products revenue 3.139 billion 2015 3 number of employees 5 000 feb 2016 4 website www.nyrstar.com nyrstar n.v is a mining and metals business that specialises in zinc . nyrstar has mining smelting and other operations located in europe the americas china and australia . nyrstar was created in 2007 by combining the zinc smelting and alloying operations of zinifex an australian mining company now merged with oxiana limited to form oz minerals and umicore a belgian materials technology company . 5 it is incorporated in belgium and has its corporate office in switzerland . nyrstar is listed on euronext brussels . 6 contents 1 operations 2 history 3 references 4 external links operations edit nyrstar has 9 mines in total in canada chile honduras mexico peru and the united states . nyrstar has 6 smelters in australia belgium france netherlands and the united states and 1 fumer in norway . in january 2016 nyrstar formally launched a sales process for all its mining assets . 6 7 history edit on 29 october 2007 nyrstar listed on the euronext brussels stock exchange through an initial public offering ipo and joined the bel20 index in its annual reshuffle on 4 march 2008 . 8 the firm lost its position in the index a year later . on may 5 2011 nyrstar announced that it had successfully completed the placement of its five year 5.375 % fixed rate bonds due 2016 through a public offering in belgium and luxembourg . the offering was increased from eur 150 million to eur 525 million and the subscription period initially planned to close on 6 may 2011 was closed early on 2 may 2011 . 9 a further rights offering was completed by the company on the 29th of february 2016 for around eur 274 million . the equity raise was part of a wider package of balance sheet strengthening actions announced by the ceo bill scotting on 9 november 2015 . the measures also included a zinc metal pre pay agreement of 150m which was unveiled in december 2015 . scotting came to nyrstar from arcelormittal in august 2015 replacing the then acting ceo heinz eigner who had held this interim role since the departure of roland junck in november 2014 . scotting has since early 2016 started re positioning nyrstar as a company focused mainly on smelting as its core operations moving the strategy away from the vertical integration plan smelting & mining of the junck era . 10 11 12 on 27 april 2016 the board appointed a new chairman martyn konig after julien de wilde stepped down from that position . konig had been voted onto the board in april 2015 as a non executive independent director . 2 nyrstar zinc works at lutana in hobart tasmania references edit nyrstar appoints arcelormittal mining chief as new ceo . a b http www.standaard.be cnt dmf20160427 02261322 annual report 2011 . nyrstar . retrieved 30 may 2012 . ar2015 news release . nyrstar history on the nystar website a b bloomberg business nyrstar nv nyr en brussels company description . bloomberg . 24hgold nyrstar formal launch of mining asset sale process . globenewswire . 7 january 2016 . annual review of bel20 index pdf . euronext . 14 january 2008 . retrieved 2008 01 18 . reuters key developments nyrstar nv nyr.br . reuters . nyrstar notification of a transparency declaration article 14 first paragraph of the belgian act of 2 may 2007 on the disclosure of significant shareholdings . nyrstar via globenewswire . 1 march 2016 . brief nyrstar announces funding of metal prepay financing . reuters . 30 december 2015 . trafigura krijgt nooit controle over nyrstar . 5 february 2016 . this article relies too much on references to primary sources . please improve this by adding secondary or tertiary sources . december 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