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MAXAM CPEA receives the best Angolan mining supplier and service provider award
2014.11.01
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At the 5th edition of Angola’s International Mining Fair, held in Luanda with "Planning: exploration, mine development and diversification" as its major theme.
- MAXAM CPEA was established in 2004 through a strategic alliance between the MAXAM Group and CPEA, a preexisting Angolan company founded in 1959.
- MAXAM is the world’s third most important company in the area of blasting products and services for large and medium sized mining operations.
- MAXAM's Headquarters (office and factory) in Angola is located in Luanda, with a total of over one hundred employees.
- MAXAM serves Angola’s mining, quarrying and infrastructure companies, participating in projects like the construction of the foundations and drainage tunnels for the future Lauca hydroelectric plant, or the planned Lobito oil refinery, amongst others.
- MAXAM CPEA manufactures RIOGEL Kupula cartridged hydrogel, the likewise cartridged AMUNITE ANFO, and the famed bulk format RIOFLEX hydrogel, which is sensitized onsite and was developed by MAXAM’s R+D team.
- Among the services MAXAM CPEA provides for its customers is "Down the Hole", system by which the Company collaborates with clients in blasting design and loading operations.
- Within Africa, MAXAM also has production facilities in South Africa, Ghana, Mali, Cameroon and Ivory Coast, among other countries.
FIMA attendees were able to know MAXAM CPEA’s full range of products and blasting services first hand. Products including non-electrical detonators or the cartridged Riogel KUPULA hydrogel, explosives capable of being employed both for open pit and underground mining operations, as well as a wide variety of initiation systems (electronic detonators, electric detonators, detonating cords, etc).
Among the innovations that most attracted the attention of those who visited the MAXAM stand was the Rioflex bulk explosive, the manufacturing of which takes place in two phases. A matrix is produced in MAXAM CPEA’s Luanda facilities and subsequently sensitized onsite as the product is loaded at the blast front.
Rioflex stands out because its versatility, adaptable to extreme conditions, with low smoke generation, high energetic potential, its excellent performance even in aquatic environments, and the ease with which this very versatile product can be used in the loading of boreholes. Developed by MAXAM, this product was first used in 1998, and has since been employed in all sorts of circumstances, from Siberia’s -40º to sub-Saharan Africa + 40º.
MAXAM CPEA since 2004
MAXAM CPEA began operations in Angola in 2004 through a strategic partnership between the MAXAM Group and CPEA, a preexisting company founded in 1959.
According to Carlos Aguincha, MAXAM CPEA’s General Director, "... we are very proud of the award that we have received from the Minister. We believe it is a recognition of the work we are doing, providing our clients with the finest products and services, as well as with the most personalized attention possible within the projects currently under development in our country ... "
With headquarters and production facilities in Luanda and over a hundred employees, MAXAM CPEA provides services (technical assistance) and products (civil explosives and initiation systems) to mining companies, quarries and construction projects in the 18 provinces of the country.
Angola is one of the world's richest countries in terms of mineral resources, possessing 6.7% of world’s diamond reserves. It also has significant iron, gold, mercury and uranium reserves.
MAXAM – www.maxam.net
MAXAM is a service and industrial group that operates on a global scale by developing, manufacturing and commercializing civil explosives and initiation systems for mining, quarries and construction; cartridges, shotgun shells and smokeless powder for hunting and sports use; and products for the defense industry. Additionally, MAXAM is a supplier of key raw materials for nitro chemical activity, generated for the company’s own internal needs as well as for sales to third parties. Finally, as a result of its drive towards innovative, sustainable development, MAXAM offers its clients a wide variety of solutions in the fields of safety and environmental conservation.
Founded by Alfred Nobel in 1872, MAXAM concluded 2013 with a yearly turnover of approximately 1.1 billion euros. It is present in all of the world’s major mining areas, with production sites in over 45 countries, an active market presence in more than 100 others, and nearly 6000 employees spread across five continents.
Further information:
Lucas Ferreira
MAXAM
Communications Director
91 722 01 00
lferreira@maxam.net
