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Chinese engineering group, Dadi Engineering Development Group, has bought a stake in a local project-engineering firm, ProMet Engineers Africa. The company, to be known as ProMet Dadi Africa, has already won a contract for the engineering and procurement portions of a major gold mine in Kyrgyzstan. The new capability of ProMet Dadi Africa affords more than 2 000 project managers, as well as professional engineers for mining projects in the African marketplace. ProMet Dadi Africa can now undertake lump-sum turnkey contracts of up to US$300-million directly on its combined balance sheet. In an engineering procurement and construction-management environment, advanced processes will allow for utilisation of the full engineering capability across disciplines. This will be complemented by speedy execution, group procurement and efficient design capabilities, as well as familiar project procedures and management techniques. Commenting on this development, Rob Bennett, MD of ProMet Dadi Africa, says: "With increasing Chinese investment in African-based resource projects, familiarity with a significant Chinese capability and marketplace is becoming ever more necessary. Africa has long been a leader in project execution, management and engineering, and this development allows ProMet Dadi Africa to bring global efficiencies to projects in a well-managed and structured manner. We have already seen projects which are struggling to pass the hurdle in higher cost environments become reinvigorated by this approach; presenting Bearing Man Group 35 BKB Dust Suppression Solutions 23 Bridgestone South Africa 12 Chevron South Africa 3 Concrete Pumps 13 Dakota Mining & Quarry Equipment 22 Dunlop Industrial Products 45 Dust-A-Side 42 Eskom 14 ESP Africa IBC Exhibition Management Services 25 [56] MINING MIRROR NOVEMBER 2011

Chinese and South African engineers have combined forces to create project-delivery capacity of note.

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"The Dadi Engineering Development Group has been involved in the design, engineering, commissioning and, in certain cases, the operation of over 400 Mtpa of China's coal-processing capability over the past eight years - accounting for more than 21% of the installed capacity in China."

significant savings in capital and project execution. We are also pleased that this transaction provides a portal for South African capabilities in markets historically closed to us. Interestingly, our first project after the merger was a study for an American coal company looking to invest in China. ProMet offered certain project-management skills from South Africa. The Dadi Engineering Development Group has been involved in the design, engineering, commissioning and, in certain cases, operation of over 400 Mtpa of China's coalprocessing capability over the past eight years - accounting for more than 21% of the installed capacity in China." Horne South Africa 31 International Investment Conference 6 ITT Industrial Process Group 32,33 K'Enyuka 15 Kirloskar Engines South Africa 20 Kwikspace Modular Building 37 MCC 52 Merck 18 Mincon 5 Minearc Systems IFC The group has more than 2 000 employees - two have been awarded design master qualifications in China, 50 are professors of engineering and 80 are senior engineers. The company has completed a number of significant projects, including 30 open-cut and underground mining projects, design and supply of over 70 coal-processing plants (CPPs) and three water slurry treatment-plant projects. Over 30 of the CPP projects were turnkey operations, and over 10 are operated and maintained by the Dadi group. ProMet provides project management, process-plant design and consultancy services to the metallurgical and process industries. It has more than 80 employees and, as a minerals processing-orientated design house, all employees come from a metallurgical and engineering-design, materials-handling and project-execution background. The core expertise lies in providing process-oriented solutions to the mineralsprocessing industry at large. The company uses a broad range of process-design tools. All its work is overlaid by its employees' experiential base who, collectively, have had many years of experience in the operation and design of plants and processes covering the full range of process options for diamonds, coal, gold, base metals, uranium, iron ore and manganese. ProMet's engineers possess project expertise from exposure and, in certain cases, full control of various projects around the globe in such diverse locations as South Africa, Botswana, Russia, Australia, Canada, Venezuela, Brazil, New Caledonia, India, Guinea, Cameroon, Zimbabwe, Sierra Leone, Namibia, Angola and Tanzania. ? Off The Road Tyre Clinic 43 Outotec SA 47 Pump & Abrasion Technologies 27 Scribante Construction 26 SE Intermat 34 Subscription Request 38 Terex Africa 53 Transcor Truck Hire 9 Tranter Rock Drills 36 Volvo SA OBC

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