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Business unit / dept.: Precious Metals Management
Why Umicore
Join us and you can look forward to working in a respectful, challenging, collaborative and rewarding environment.
What we do
We focus on three areas which contribute to fundamental improvements for people all over the world : recycling, electrification and clean air.
What you could do
It’s limitless. Our teams are at the cutting edge of materials science, chemistry and metallurgy. We have room for operators to work in our state-of-the-art production processes. Our support teams play a critical role in supporting the business growth. Managers at Umicore work on projects that are as exciting as they are challenging. R&D experts...
What we value
Our values - openness, innovation, respect, teamwork and commitment - guide our success and we incorporate them into everything we do.
About
Our two production plants in Poland contribute to clean mobility in the European markets.
The Umicore way
The Umicore Way is the cornerstone of everything we do at Umicore. It outlines our values and the way in which we wish to achieve our strategy.
History
Before evolving into the materials technology and recycling company it is today, Umicore had a history stretching back over more than 200 years.
Sponsorship principles
Umicore in Nysa has set out principles to ensure that sponsorship of local organizations is granted in a fair way. The main principles are described below. Sustainable development is a key element in our decision making process. Umicore expects all projects and activities to demonstrate that these are organized in a safe way and with respect for...
Sponsorship Nysa
At Umicore, we attach great importance to our reputation as a 'good neighbour'. We are genuinely interested in the well-being of the region where our collaborators reside and work and we want to contribute to a sustainable development of the surroundings of our cathode materials production plant in Poland, i.e. the community of Nysa and the...
Sponsorship application form
Our metals
Our metals Here you can find brief descriptions of the history, physical properties and main active applications of the metals used by our various Business Units.
Nickel
Throughout the Middle Ages miners in Germany occasionally found a brownish-red ore, which they called kupfernickel, after Nick, a spirit that haunted mines. The Swedish scientist Cronstedt managed to isolate the metal in 1751 and named it nickel. Nickel only began to arouse real interest when the USA started to use a Cu-Ni alloy for its coins...