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MAXAM Mongolia receives the “Grand Prix” Oyu Tolgoi award and the Mongolian National Award for the “Best Health & Safety Performing Enterprise”
2016.01.26
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Oyu Tolgoi and the Mongolian Government recognize MAXAM’s Health & Safety and overall performance
MAXAM Mongolia has been awarded Oyu Tolgoi’s “Grand Prix” award in recognition to its “overall best-performance” during 2015.Oyu Tolgoi LLC, Mongolia's largest copper and gold mining company, is a strategic partnership between the Government of Mongolia, Turquoise Hill Resources and Rio Tinto for which MAXAM is the blasting solutions supplier since 2011.
Oyu Tolgoi held its annual Supplier Recognition ’Gobi Gem‘ Awards in Khanbogd soum, Umnugobi last Thursday, the 22nd of January, with government officials, local dignitaries, trade associations and the supplier community taking part in the ceremony.
The awards recognized achievements in five main categories in 2015: safety, business performance, national and South Gobi suppliers, and a ‘Grand Prix’ category for the overall best-performer. The awards, in addition to recognizing the five winners, celebrate the achievements of Mongolia’s business and industrial community across sectors.
Speaking at the event, Andrew Woodley, Oyu Tolgoi’s President and CEO, said, “The strength of our partnership will continue to grow – just as Oyu Tolgoi grows with the underground development. I could not be more honored to be working with the people of Khanbogd and the South Gobi to turn Oyu Tolgoi into one of the most important copper mines in the world in the coming years”.
MAXAM Mongolia has also been awarded the “Best Health & Safety Performing Enterprise” award by the Mongolian Government. The ceremony, organized by the Mongolian Ministry of Labor, took place on the 22nd of January at Ulaanbaatar. MAXAM, received the 1st place award in the “small entities” classification.
Areas of evaluation included compliance with legislation, working environment, medical assessments, HSE management system and training. The jury was formed by members of the Mongolian Ministry of Labor, Labor Condition Research Agency and Social Insurance General Office.
MAXAM in Mongolia
MAXAM Explosives LLC has been operating in Mongolia since 2006 and is committed to contribute to the sustainable development of Mongolia.
MAXAM Mongolia is the supplier of blasting solutions to Oyu Tolgoi, one of the world´s largest copper-gold projects. As part of the agreement to provide products and services to this mine, MAXAM Mongolia committed to implement a series of educational, social and community programs, which started on September 2011 and are currently ongoing.
MAXAM – www.maxam.net
MAXAM is an industrial and services group that operates globally, developing, manufacturing, and marketing blasting services and products and initiation systems for mining, quarries, and infrastructure; cartridges and powder for sport hunting; and products and services for the defence industry. It also provides the key raw materials for nitro-chemical activities, such as energetic nitrocellulose and ammonium nitrates, for internal use by MAXAM, as well as for sale to third parties.
MAXAM, founded by Alfred Nobel in 1872, finished 2015 with an annual turnover of 1.115 million euros. It operates in the main mining areas around the world, with manufacturing facilities in more than 45 countries and sales in more than 100 countries on five continents, with more than 6,500 employees.
Further information:
Lucas Ferreira
MAXAM
Communications Director
+34 91 722 01 00
lferreira@maxam.net
Louis Trollope
MAXAM
Communication Officer
+34 91 722 01 00
ltrollope@maxam.net
