Four of NFC's projects,including the Kazakhstan Pavlodar 250kta aluminum smelter project with NFC as EPC contractor, won the 2011 China Nonferrous Metals Industry (ministerial) Quality Engineering Awards on 19th March, 2012. These projects are designed by NFC's secondary companies, China Nerin Engineering Co. Ltd (Nerin) and Northeastern University Engineering&Research Institute Co., Ltd.(NEUI).