CIMIC Group firms Sedgman and Leighton Asia have been awarded separate contracts by Hindustan Zinc Restricted (HZL), the world’s largest built-in zinc producer and one of many prime 5 silver producers globally, to help the supply of India’s first zinc tailings recycling facility at Rampura Agucha Mines (RAM) in Rajasthan, India.
This milestone undertaking displays CIMIC’s strategic dedication to enabling the worldwide power transition via sustainable infrastructure and significant minerals improvement, it says. With over 45 years’ expertise in processing and delivering minerals important to scrub power, superior manufacturing and digital infrastructure, Sedgman has delivered greater than 630 research and tasks globally – together with 20 in zinc since 2014.
Sedgman will ship engineering providers and offshore tools procurement underneath an offshore contract. Leighton Asia – a long-standing infrastructure supply accomplice with a longtime presence in India – will handle the undertaking’s development and onshore procurement underneath a separate contract. The contracts will generate income of roughly A$400 million ($274 million) for CIMIC.
ACS Group and HOCHTIEF Chief Govt Officer and CIMIC Group Govt Chairman, Juan Santamaría, stated: “This undertaking highlights Sedgman’s management in minerals processing and Leighton Asia’s confirmed functionality in infrastructure supply. It displays our group’s strategic dedication to supporting the worldwide power transition via crucial minerals improvement. Fashionable tailing reprocessing unlocks new alternatives to get better important minerals that energy clear power applied sciences and digital infrastructure.”
Sedgman Managing Director, Grant Fraser, stated: “By leveraging our in depth monitor report in tailings reprocessing, we’re happy to help the extraction of crucial minerals from waste, to ship a round economic system method to offering minerals for the clear power transition. Our technical experience, undertaking supply and operations expertise permits us to ship end-to-end options to unlock worth for purchasers like Hindustan Zinc and help a transition in the direction of extra sustainable minerals extraction.”
Leighton Asia Managing Director, Brad Davey, stated: “By combining our worldwide expertise with native data, we’re happy to accomplice with Hindustan Zinc on a undertaking that not solely advances India’s mining infrastructure but in addition helps the area’s progress whereas creating alternatives for native communities via employment and procurement.”
Arun Misra, CEO – Hindustan Zinc Restricted, stated: “India’s subsequent part of commercial progress will likely be outlined not simply by how a lot we mine, however by how intelligently we use what we have already got. This undertaking represents a elementary shift in mining, from extraction to optimisation, and from linear consumption to round worth creation. By establishing India’s first zinc tailings recycling facility at international scale, Hindustan Zinc is making a blueprint for the way legacy assets will be re-engineered into future provide, strengthening the nation’s crucial minerals safety. Our collaboration with Sedgman’s international minerals processing experience and Leighton Asia’s on-ground infrastructure execution brings collectively the perfect of know-how and supply to set new benchmarks for accountable mining.”
