NEWS / edition 30
EDITORIAL
NEWS
We invite you to review some Enaex’s news!
GLOBAL
We closed our 2022 with you, the year of Innovation!
Accompanied by the entire Enaex family, on December 14 we celebrated the closing milestone of our value Our Strength: Innovation and Entrepreneurship, which was the focus of our culture campaigns and various work, competitive, and learning activities during 2022.
Instead of talking about Innovation from the corporate sector, in this event we wanted to do something special and focus on new protagonists: our collaborators. The instance brought together different Enaex teams from all over the world, who told through video capsules their projects, initiatives and ideas based on innovation, as well as its importance in their daily work.
The event, the first to be broadcast and organized in Spanish, English, French and Portuguese, was also led by Nadine Szczepocki, Internal Communications Assistant at Enaex France and Antoine Moreau, Innovation Projects Coordinator at Enaex Brazil, who moderated perfectly each section of testimonials from our collaborators.
GLOBAL
Enaex Innovation teams from around the world participated in the first meeting of the Innovation Community
With the presence of prominent leaders and members of Enaex teams from around the world, the first Innovation Community meeting was held.
This meeting aims to create synergies between the different Innovation teams, sharing best practices, methodology and challenges. At the same time, it seeks to understand the innovation ecosystems in each region, the existing development capacities and issues that allow us to generate value for our clients.
The heads of the Innovation teams from all the group’s business units, as well as the corporate innovation management team, participated in this meeting that took place at the end of November.
Australia
Enaex Australia breaks record in its first blast at the Carrapateena Cave Shaker project
The Enaex Australia underground team completed its first blast at the Carrapateena Cave Shaker project. This is the first explosion of its kind in Australia, setting a new record for the length of the shaft and the volume of the explosives.
The well was drilled to 350m and cased to 312m. The primary objective was to safely prime, load, and cap the well with two tons of ANFO and fire instantly. There are four additional blasts planned, with eight holes per blast with the goal of blasting the cave to the surface.
OZ Minerals was very pleased with the blast results and expressed gratitude for the way our team planned and delivered this critical project. We would like to thank the undergorund team responsible for this project: Tim Cork, Pete McCarthy, Greg Winter, Nathan Newton, Michael O’Connor and Murray Gordon.
Australia
Mining women from Enaex Australia met to discuss opportunities and diversity
Part of our Enaex Australia team spent an inspiring morning at the ‘Women in Mining New South Wales’ meeting during a recent breakfast at the Gunnedah Rugby Club.
Barbara McDonald, Coby Tweddle, Phoebe Smith and Derek Henning represented Enaex Australia that day and heard from Mach Energy’s Ngaire Maker and Orica’s Tiffany Chown. Both Ngaire and Tiffany shared insights from their personal mining journeys and explored the opportunities available to women in the modern mining industry.
Supporting a diverse workforce is important to Enaex Australia and it’s great to see female representation growing on the NSW project team.
CHILE
Enaex Prillex and Nittra triumphed at the ASIQUIM Responsible Care 2022 Awards!
Enaex Nittra and Enaex Prillex won two awards at the 2022 Responsible Care Awards ceremony, delivered by ASIQUIM on Friday, December 11.
After an analysis carried out by the jury and a unanimous vote, it was decided to award the prize for practice, digital security, technology at the service of people in the Chemical Safety category to the Enaex Prillex Plant.
This award seeks to recognize value chain projects that help companies establish and improve their chemical management procedures in accordance with chemical regulation.
In addition, our company was doubly successful, due to the Enaex Nittra award, this time in the Environmental Responsibility category.
CHILE
Students completed the Chemical Plant Operator Program at Enaex Planta Río Loa
With a certification ceremony that rewarded the effort and dedication of the students of the Liceo B-10 Minero América, as well as the great commitment of their teachers and guides who trained them throughout 2022, the Dual Educational Alternation Program of the Planta Río Loa ended, an initiative that aimed to generate training opportunities, job placement and strengthen the link between the Río Loa Plant and the community.
This program included 500 hours of training for 24 students who were certified as Chemical Plant operators before graduating, which will allow them to be prepared to enter the working world.
In this regard, the Production Manager of Planta Río Loa, Jorge Fuentes, stated that from Enaex “we are happy to close the 2022 program, which culminates a process where we have seen the dedication and motivation of the students and the commitment of the Planta Río Loa team. I think it is a tangible example of our purpose to humanize mining through the educational development of young people in the community and the generation of shared value”.
BRAZIL
Enaex Brazil's mine-to-mill project receives recognition at the 2022 Hatch Global Awards
The article “Integrated Optimization of Drilling, Blasting and Fragmentation Processes”, written by the EMTS Brazil area, based on a partnership between Hatch, Enaex and Lundin Mining do Brasil, won in the Metals category at the Hatch Global Awards, which recognize the best technical articles related to the projects that the company executes and that most represent its essence of leadership.
Its content makes an extensive analysis of the “mine-to-mill” optimization for the operation of the Chapada Mine of Lundin Mining, Brazil. The project brought with it a deep operational study and the development of mathematical models and simulations that maximize the performance of the plant and maintain the best particle size of the product of the fragmentation circuit.
In addition to being awarded the team’s recommendations, including proposed blasting guidelines to optimize mine fragmentation (ROM), are already being progressively implemented at the Chapada Mine. In 2023, the implementation will be complete.
BRAZIL
Enaex Brazil celebrated its major milestones in 2022
To celebrate the achievements of the year with our collaborators, Enaex Brazil promoted two meetings in December. In virtual format, Enaex’s New Year’s Eve Live brought together employees from more than 50 units in the country, including factories, administrative staff, Service Units and Distribution Centers. The event lasted for 2 hours and had videos, awards, live music and prizes broadcasted.
In Matriz, after two years without the face-to-face event due to the pandemic, a special lunch was held with musical performances, tributes and dynamics with the possibility of winning prizes.
At the same time, teams from the Service Units and Distribution Centers also gathered for local celebrations. Thus we close the year with joy and unity, with the aim of achieving even more in 2023.
South Africa
New production of DaveyTronic® electronic detonators
The new DaveyTronic® facility for the production of programmable electronic detonators was celebrated on November 30 with a groundbreaking ceremony.
CEO Francisco Baudrand and the Executive Committee of Enaex Africa presided over the ceremony, which marked an important milestone for Enaex Africa and for DaveyTronic®. The facility, at Enaex Africa’s Secunda operations, is the first of its kind built outside of France.
The detonators produced at the factory will be available to Enaex Africa’s operations throughout the region and will also complement the global supply when necessary.
“It is incredible to consider the progress we have made. We must bear in mind that manufacturing a robust and reliable detonator of this quality is not easy. Being able to produce blasting caps locally will allow us to really deliver the added value our customers are looking for,” said Michael van Wyk, Technical Advisor to our CEO.
FrancE
New collaborators of Davey Bickford Enaex met in a seminar
On December 5, 2022, the first seminar for the new collaborators of Davey Bickford Enaex was held, an instance in which 29 people participated.
This seminar took place at the AJA Training Center in Auxerre (area of our local soccer team) in the presence of the members of the Executive Committee who were able to discuss with the new collaborators. This seminar marked the end of the integration process.
We wish all of them a successful future together with Davey Bickford Enaex.
Argentina
ISO Tri Norm Certification, an important step for a safe, healthy and sustainable company!
On November 17, 2022, Enaex Argentina was certified in ISO 9001 (quality), ISO 14001 (environment) and ISO 45001 (occupational health and occupational safety) standards.
The auditing entity was Bureau Veritas through a team made up of four auditors who spent nine days reviewing both our documentation and manufacturing processes, services at mining and administrative customer sites.
This is a great team task that frames us in a process of continuous improvement and generates a commitment to one of our priority values, Life!
PerU
Enaex Peru delivered gifts to children from the communities near the Cachimayo Plant
As part of the social responsibility and sustainability activities, during the last weeks of November, gifts were delivered and a children’s show was held for the children of the communities near our Cachimayo Plant. On this occasion, more than 1,300 children of ages between 0 and 12 years were reached.
Without a doubt, these are the spaces in which we generate “Stronger Ties” with the community.
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