UPDATE 1-Russia’s Nornickel: Some EU clients refuse to buy produce made of Russian metal

Russian metals producer Nornickel, the world's largest palladium producer and a major producer of high-grade nickel, said on Friday that some clients in the European Union had refused to buy produce made with Russian metals. Although Nornickel itself and its metals is not a target of Western sanctions some consumers are voluntarily shunning deals for its metals and of products made from Russian raw materials, said Anton Berlin, vice president for sales. Nornickel's Finnish Harjavalta plant, which produces battery materials in Europe for electric vehicles, was affected, he added as an example of the rejection of products made from Russian materials.