NEWS / edition 26
EDITORIAL
NEWS
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BRAZIL
ENAEX BRAZIL IS AMONG THE FIVE MOST INNOVATIVE COMPANIES IN THE CHEMICAL INDUSTRY IN BRAZIL
Enaex Brazil received the Award Valor Inovação Brasil 2022. The company ranked as the fifth most innovative company in Brazil in the Chemical industry, endorsing once again our value Innovation and Entrepreneurship.
Organized by Strategy& – PwC’s strategic consultancy – and Valor Econômico newspaper, the award is in its eighth edition. Of the more than 300 registered organizations, Enaex Brazil won its place among the 150 most innovative companies in the country. The recognition was granted in the first time the company competed for the most recognized innovation award in the country.
The survey evaluates the innovation practices of companies operating in Brazil in different economic activities. Participants must have at least 5% private equity in their capital and net income above R$500 million in one of the last two fiscal years in Brazil.
Innovation at Enaex
“We want innovation to help us take people out of the hostile environment of the mines”, said the VP Latam East & North America of Enaex, Antonio Cyrino de Sá, in an interview with Valor Econômico. The article was published in the Award’s yearbook.
CHILE
MICHILLA PLANT STARTS OPERATIONS
A new plant joins the Enaex family! Last August 1st, Michilla Plant started operations with a team of 19 professionals and great enthusiasm. Thus, the first major milestone for the personnel took place on Tuesday, August 2nd, when they conducted the first blasting.
This new deposit, where Enaex provides its services, is owned by the client Minera Michilla, which belongs to Haldeman Mining Company S.A. It is located 1 hour and 20 minutes north of Antofagasta.
We would like to take this opportunity to acknowledge and thank all the team in charge of the implementation.
We wish them much success in this great challenge!
AUSTRALIA
CBS TRIAL AT FOSTERVILLE
Enaex Australia recently completed a trial of the Centralised Blasting System (CBS) at Agnico Gold’s Fosterville Mine. Enaex Australia’s CEO, Edmundo Jiménez, had the pleasure of visiting the site with the Commercial Director, Tareq van Oosterom, and the Account Manager, Stuart Hackney.
The executives were delighted to hear glowing praise from Agnico about the progress so far and are now eagerly anticipating full-scale implementation across the site in the coming months.
Well done to the project team, lead by Gary Bulbek, on this outstanding progress.
SOUTH AFRICA
NEW PRICING TOOL BRINGS EFFICIENCIES TO THE MONTHLY UPDATE PROCESS
To solve a material business challenge of ensuring that the prices for ammonia, diesel and other raw materials are accurately updated monthly, Enaex Africa developed and implemented an innovative new platform called “E-Price”. The solution has increased productivity, reduced potential pricing calculation errors, and improved the responsiveness in terms of distributing monthly and annual pricing letters to customers.
The tool provides accurate, up-to-date monthly and annual price changes, protecting the margins per product over time. The platform’s scalability ensures that monthly and annual customer price calculations are automated for all product lines across all customers.
E-Price generates automatic pricing letters for over 80 customers per month, across both underground and opencast operations; and accommodates multiple contract scenarios, discounts, and service and transportation fees. All approvals and workflows in the pricing process happen 100% digitally, trackable in real time, which improves agility, control and outputs.
Immediate benefits include speed of response (90 fewer man-hours a month are required for the same tasks), increased price accuracy (by eliminating human error), better cost management (through access to structured data), availability of real-time data for pricing analysis, and increased flexibility.
E-Price’s accuracy and visibility have become critical to Enaex Africa’s ability to respond to both sales team and customers’ needs effectively.
CHILE
ENAEX DONATES VEHICLES FOR THE PUBLIC SAFETY OF MEJILLONES
With the presence of Enaex’s CEO, Juan Andrés Errázuriz, the company donated two pick-up trucks for the Public Safety area of the municipality.
The contribution was received by the mayor, Marcelino Carvajal; the councilman, Manuel Monardes; the director of public safety, Christian Rojas; the head of Carabineros, and presidents of neighborhood councils. They all thanked the company on behalf of the entire local community for this important contribution that reflects, once again, the social commitment of Enaex in favor of the inhabitants and their main requirements.
In his speech, Juan Andrés Errázuriz thanked the company for the opportunity to support the strengthening of public safety with this donation, so that all the inhabitants can improve their life quality.
The mayor presented the CEO with an award in gratitude for the company’s constant social commitment to Mejillones.
Claudio Yévenes, Vice-President of Chemicals Business, was also present during this occasion, as well as, on behalf of the Prillex Plant; Germán Lamas, Operations and Maintenance Manager; José Contreras, Support and Development Manager; and Felipe Muñoz, People, Sustainability and HSEQ Manager.
ARGENTINA
ENAEX ARGENTINA: TECHNOLOGY TO HUMANIZE THE MINING INDUSTRY
Enaex Argentina continues in the process of operational mechanization with the incorporation of new technologies that add value to the client’s safety and productivity, and at the same time mitigate the risks faced by the personnel in the production fronts in underground mines.
Thus, it started up the “hose pusher” – which can be operated remotely and without jeopardizing the rock quality – in the mines of Cerro Moro, belonging to Yamana, and Cerro Negro, belonging to Newmont. This constitutes a materialization of the subsidiary’s objectives.
PERU
ENAEX PERU SUCCESSFULLY IMPLEMENTS A NEW DETONATOR
During July, and inspired by the value “Our Obsession, Excellence”, Anglo American Quellaveco conducted the first blasting with Package 56, which allows operations with XD (extra delay) electronic detonators, which, in turn, allows to have a delay from 0 to 20,000ms.
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