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ENAEX WILL BE GREAT THIS YEAR!
A total of 960 people joined the launch of the Excellence value on April 19, through the Zoom platform. This event was led by Juan Andrés Errazuriz, CEO; Patricia Valenzuela, People & Sustainability Vice President; Pablo Busquet, CFO; and Claudio Yévenes, Vice President of Enaex Chemicals.
In a dynamic presentation, our leaders talked about the growth of the company, the challenges in innovation and artificial intelligence, and how we have been differentiating ourselves to date to achieve our vision of becoming the industry’s top choice. They talked about the importance of our PEOPLE, our culture, and how we have differentiated ourselves. Finally, they took the step to launch our latest corporate value “Our Obsession EXCELLENCE”, synthesized in a single word “GREAT”, which means excellent or very good. And we also wanted to transform GREAT into an acronym to represent the meaning that our company wants to give to the value of Excellence. Thus, G stands for Get Results, R for Rigor, E for Efficiency, A for Accountability, and T for Time. These 5 concepts must point to a work that generates results, with a rigorous methodology, that is efficient, taking charge of our responsibilities and fulfilling our commitments on time. This is the way we will achieve excellence and explore new horizons.
GREAT TEAMS
Great Teams will be the name of the new section of this newsletter, and we want to invite teams to be the protagonists of it.
Teams must send a text of no more than 1,000 characters, explaining how they work towards excellence and thus, share best practices among all. Add a photo of the whole team with the name of its members. We will publish the best practices among all Enaex teams every month.
We invite you and your team to apply, writing an explanation of how you are GREAT, and adding a photo of the whole team with the names of its members.
Send your team’s picture to comunicaciones@enaex.com! The best practices will be published in the May Newsletter.
ENAEX ARGENTINA INCORPORATES FAULT DIAGNOSIS IN REMOTE MODEz
Enaex Argentina’s team has incorporated a remote fault diagnosis method at PLC level in explosives manufacturing equipment in its operational model. This will reduce the time required to provide solutions to possible failures in the equipment in any of the operational sites where our business is developed.
The incorporation was achieved through a remote wizard with a connection to a PC on site that is connected to the programmable logic controller in question. Once linked to the equipment, the status of the digital inputs and outputs is verified (electro-pneumatic valves open instantaneously when pumping starts, send an electrical signal to the PLC – on-off control – and the system allows observing which valve or which digital input element is faulty).
The entire implementation has been carried out with our local engineering and maintenance team, an improvement highly valued by our clients.
CEO AND PEOPLE & SUSTAINABILITY VICE PRESIDENT VISIT ENAEX AFRICA
In mid-February, Enaex CEO, Juan Andrés Errázuriz, and People and Sustainability Vice President, Patricia Valenzuela, visited South Africa to meet with partners, clients, and employees.
During this visit to South Africa, Juan Andres met with key clients and partners at Sasol. He visited Secunda accompanied by Enaex Africa CEO, Francisco Baudrand, and Dr. Mandla Gantsho, the main shareholder of the corporate finance advisory firm, Afris, a partner of BBBEE (Broad-Based Black Economic Empowerment) and a member of the Board of Directors of Enaex Africa.
Patricia took advantage of her time in South Africa to share with the people in the field, learn about some of the challenges facing the region, and reiterate the vital place Enaex Africa has in the global Enaex family.
ENAEX AFRICA REACHED MILESTONE IN BBBEE PROGRAM
Enaex Africa was certified as a Level 2 BBBEE (Broad-Based Black Economic Empowerment) compliant in the last audit conducted at the end of February 2023. This is an important milestone that shows Enaex Africa’s commitment to transformation and diversity.
BBBEE is a program that the South African government has put in place to promote an equal opportunity economy. The objective of BBBEE is to empower previously disadvantaged or discriminated people to regain what they lost as a result of their discrimination.
“We have said from the beginning that we believe in diversity, transformation, and doing things with a specific goal in mind. We want to have the right people in the right positions from a business point of view, and we are promoting young professionals and women for that,” affirmed Francisco Baudrand, CEO of Enaex Africa.
Comfort Mathenjwa, Sales and Marketing Director of Enaex Africa, is proud of what the company has achieved in a short time. “I can take a great message to our team, current and potential clients. My colleagues can see that we are committed to addressing the challenges of our past while getting the right mix of people across the organization.”
Working in order to consolidate this Level 2 will continue with a focus on internal skills development such as the YES program, Young Professionals and external procurement initiatives that support local businesses.
INDIA'S SBL ENERGY LTD VISITS DAVEY BICKFORD ENAEX FACILITIES
From March 13 to 14, 2023, the Indian company SBL ENERGY LTD visited the Hery plant of Davey Bickford France. This company manufactures explosives, detonators, and also plans to introduce Daveytronic to the Indian market.
The purpose of their visit was to learn about Daveytronic’s workshop assembly and to follow up on business discussions that began in February when part of the Davey Bickford team visited their factory in Nagpur, India.
EXCEPTIONAL AWARDS PRESENTED AT DAVEY BICKFORD ENAEX FRANCE
Two exceptional awards were presented by Plant Manager Dominique Verduyn on March 9, 2023, as part of the Lean School and DBEX Training for employees from different sectors.
Claude Bruniaux, DaveyTronic operator, was recognized for his help identifying problems with cable length adjustments on strippers.
Thanks to this, Fabrice Riollet, Maintenance Technician, was able to solve this problem by modifying the entrance door and providing it with a dual function as a handle and a tool.
ENAEX BRASIL PRESENTS ITS FIRST GENERATION OF THE "AGILISTAS PROGRAM"
The goal of the program is to help cultivate an agile mindset, focused on excellence, sustainable growth, and added value for business and clients. Agile training helps employees apply agile tools on a daily basis, spreading and reinforcing the agile culture in the company.
During the program, participants received hands-on training and mentoring to deepen their knowledge of agile tools and apply them to strategic projects. At the end, the teams presented the results of the initiatives to the company’s management and received certificates of completion.
ENAEX BRAZIL CARRIES OUT ACTIONS TO INCREASE THE NUMBER OF FEMALE EMPLOYEES
People and ESG is one of the pillars of Strategic Planning both in Enaex Brazil and Enaex Global. In this context, the company is part of the Women in Mining Brazil (WIM Brazil) movement, which aims to expand and strengthen the presence of women in the mining industry. Our goal as a company is for female talent to account for at least 30% of the workforce by 2030. A recent initiative that reinforces this commitment is the Young Apprentice Program, which will focus on young women during 2023, in addition to the Women’s Week, which took place in March and allowed an exchange of experiences among all the women working in the Company.
UG-ITRUCK ARRIVED AT EL TENIENTE MINE
Enaex Robotics completed the implementation of the UG-iTruck® at CODELCO’s El Teniente mine.
This solution allows 100% remote, robotized, and autonomous explosives loading for tunnel development operations in subway mining. This is a great milestone for our purpose of Humanizing the Mining Industry, which seeks to improve the quality of life of our employees and clients.
By creating stronger bonds with Codelco, we have taken a step forward in the prevention and control of critical standards and risks for the safety of everyone.
ENAEX SPIRIT CELEBRATES THE FIRST 2023 AWARDS CEREMONY IN SANTIAGO OFFICE
Last Friday, April 14, in the auditorium of Santiago Office, the First Enaex Spirit 2023 Awards Ceremony was held, in which awards were given to the most acknowledged members of the corporate program.
Before the awards ceremony, we had the remote presence of Victor Küppers, a motivational speaker, writer, and teacher, who spoke about how important it is to see the positive side of things when facing negative circumstances and how this can bring us great benefits in our personal and work life.
During the ceremony, it was revealed that so far, in 2023, more than 13,129 recognitions have been made, 4,651 more than in the first months of 2022. In addition, it is expected that, by the end of this year, the global recognition platform will reach more than 60 thousand recognitions through the #60kChallenge campaign.
The ceremony had Isabel Novoa, Head of Culture Projects, as master of ceremonies, who, together with Juan Andrés Errazuriz, CEO; Pablo Wallach, Vice President of Innovation and Marketing; Patricia Valenzuela, Vice President of People and Sustainability; Claudio Yevenes, Vice President of Chemicals; and Pablo Busquet, CFO, were in charge of delivering thoughtful messages about the benefits of recognizing and awarding diplomas to the winners.
PERU IMPLEMENTS SELECTIVE BLASTING IN NARROW VEINS AT KOLPA MINE WITH DAVEYTRONIC SWIFT DETONATORS
On Saturday, March 4, the implementation of selective blasting with DaveyTronic SWIFT detonators began with our client Kolpa, following successful tests conducted between July and August, 2022.
During the whole month of March, a total of 60 blasting operations and a consumption of 1,378 detonators have been successfully conducted without any major mishap. This application developed at Kolpa has brought both operational and economic benefits to the client, increasing its monthly production by 1,300 tons of high value ore. This translates into an added value of more than 100,000 USD to the operation. The Enaex Peru team will continue working to add value to the client.
ENAEX PERU EMPLOYEES AND OUR CLIENT ANGLOAMERICAN PARTICIPATED IN THE REFORESTATION OF QUEÑUA
On March 7, our client AngloAmerican, through its Environmental Affairs Management, carried out the Queñuas Afforestation campaign as part of its “QUELLAVECO LEAVES A GREEN FOOTPRINT” project.
The queñua is a shrub typical of highland climates with a very important characteristic: it prevents soil erosion. However, today it is a vulnerable species. Therefore, as part of its commitment to environmental protection, Anglo American proposed afforestation of the Quellaveco Project with this species.
We are glad of having our employees participate together with the client in an initiative that is very relevant for our company, as is the care of the environment.
Congratulations to: Diana Pumacahua – Floor Operator, Aracely Huayta – Floor Operator, Xiomara Valdivia – Administrative Assistant, Lenin Ayala – Ssoma Supervisor, and Sarita Carrillo – Administrative Assistant for their valuable participation in this important initiative.
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