Nordic Talc Oy has been accepted to join UN Global Compact

Nordic Talc Oy is pleased to announce that we have joined the United Nations Global Compact initiative — a voluntary leadership platform for the development, implementation, and disclosure of responsible business practices.

The UN Global Compact is a call to companies everywhere to align their operations and strategies with ten universally accepted principles in the areas of human rights, labour, environment, and anti-corruption, and to take action in support of UN goals and issues embodied in the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Launched in 2000, the UN Global Compact is the largest corporate sustainability initiative in the world, with more than 15,000 companies and 3,000 non-business signatories based in over 160 countries, and more than 70 Local Networks.

“We are proud to join to the initiative and UN Global Compact Network Finland which is a significant step on our path towards more responsible business and it helps us to meet our responsibility promise to work for a more sustainable, fair and equal future.”, says CEO Erkki Kuronen.

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Environmental permit application for the Suomussalmi talc project has been announced for public notice

The environmental permitting process for the project is progressing as planned. The permit application was prepared on the basis of the Environmental Impact Assessment Report and was supplemented as requested by the authorities. The supplements were deemed sufficient, and on 2 April 2026 the Permit and Supervisory Authority (LVV) announced the public notice for the environmental and water management permit application concerning the Suomussalmi talc project.

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The results of the resident and stakeholder survey for the talc project highlighted the importance of local cooperation already in the early stages of the project

Nordic Talc Oy organized a resident and stakeholder survey regarding the Suomussalmi talc utilization project. The resident and stakeholder survey is intended to be continued periodically in order to map the views of local people and other stakeholders, especially on the impacts caused by the project on people, and to hear, among other things, expectations and wishes for the implementation of project communication.

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