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Due to Talvivaara's experience, and particularly due to the financial potential of
the extensive group of shareholders resulting from the implemented and considerable
debt conversion, several smaller and medium-sized industrial companies
and other operators have approached the Company and proposed cooperation.
According to the information received by the administrator, the Company
has several cooperation and development projects under way. Of these projects,
the Company has been able to choose the alternatives that are most appropriate
for it and most credible industrially and commercially. The Company's goal is to
continue to reserve resources in the future for receiving new development projects
and ideas and for further developing projects fulfilling the requirements as
part of the normal business operations of the Company and its subsidiaries and
affiliates.
The arrangement carried out with Terrafame Oy has, among other things, made
it possible for the Company to acquire metal industry technology that reduces
the energy requirements and increases the capacity of scrap metal smelting
furnaces. The Company has estimated that the service business model in question
has significant global potential. The Company has hired numerous experts
in the field in question, and according to the Company, it has received positive
feedback from the market on its first marketing efforts.
The Company has also initiated a productisation project primarily for the utilisation
of nutrient- and energy-rich types of cattle manure and for the commercialisation
of the products produced from them that involves both the Company's
own personnel and third-party expert organisations. The Company has
stated that its goal is to develop a service concept using different operators that
is intended to start industrial scale test operations during the summer of 2017.
The Terrafame agreements have financially made it possible to also develop this
business model into a commercially viable form.
In addition, a significant holding in the Hanhikivi nuclear power plant planned
for construction in Pyhäjoki has been written down in the Company's balance UNOFFICIAL ENGLISH TRANSLATION
10 (11)
sheet. According to information received by the administrator, the Company
has considered options for increasing the value of the holdings based on the
progress of the nuclear power plant.