Inco Limited Guide, Meaning , Facts, Information and Description
Inco Limited is a Canadian mining and metals company, headquartered in Toronto, Ontario. It is the world's second largest producer of nickel, and its third largest producer outside South Africa and Russia of platinum-group metals. Its shares trade on the Toronto Stock Exchange and the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker symbol N. A charter member of the newly expanded 30-stock Dow Jones Industrial Average (October 1, 1928), Inco was replaced by Boeing in 1987.The International Nickel Company was founded in New Jersey, USA, in 1902 through the merger of Canadian Copper, the Orford Copper Company, the Société Minière Caledonienne, and others. Control was transferred to the International Nickel Company of Canada, Ltd., upon its founding in 1916. The International Nickel Company of Canada, Ltd., first began using the trade name Inco in 1919, and officially changed its name to Inco Limited in 1975.
In addition to nickel, Inco produces copper, cobalt, platinum, palladium, rhodium, ruthenium, iridium, gold, and silver.