Profile: Vale Inco Europe Ltd. is a mining company and a producer of nickel. We also produce copper, precious metals and cobalt products. We produce nickel products for melting applications from both carbonyl and electrolytic processes. Our nickel products are suitable for the production of both cast and wrought alloy forms including nickel-based alloys, austenitic stainless steels, low alloy steels and cast irons. We also offer plating products in more forms. We specialize in providing carbonyl nickel powder products. Nickel powders we offer are used in a wide range of applications including filamentary powders for re-chargeable batteries in consumer electronics & hybrid electric vehicles, discrete powders for powder metallurgy such as sintered steels for automotive parts & binders for hard metals & diamond tools, high purity dissolving powder for re-chargeable batteries, catalysts & other chemical industry products and oxides for electronics, fuel cells & pigments. We produce copper anodes by smelting copper-bearing sulphides.