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March 27, 2012
PT Leighton Contractors Indonesia

Indonesia has 17,000 islands and though PT Leighton Contractors Indonesia (LCI) works on just a few of those, logistics are a challenge.

Indonesia has 17,000 islands and though PT Leighton Contractors Indonesia (LCI) works on just a few of those, logistics are a challenge. Mining Indonesian coal destined for China and India may be part of its core business; but diversity is LCI’s second name.

January 23, 2012
Vale

When the world’s second largest diversified mining company Vale acquired the iconic Canadian nickel miner Inco five years ago it was the beginning of the largest investment in Canadian mining in the country’s history, as Cory McPhee explains.

When the world’s second largest diversified mining company Vale acquired the iconic Canadian nickel miner Inco five years ago it was the beginning of the largest investment in Canadian mining in the country’s history, as Cory McPhee explains to Gay Sutton.

 

November 25, 2011
Dialog Axiata

As Jeff Daniel learns, the very latest telecommunications technology isn’t necessarily found in Western countries.

As Jeff Daniel learns, the very latest telecommunications technology isn’t necessarily found in Western countries.

 

It’s not so long ago that travellers from the West, wanting to make a phone call back home from some less developed country in the world, could be left tearing their hair out in frustration. Back street booths, poor quality and unreliable connections were commonplace and were easily disparaged as examples of lack of technological development.

November 25, 2011
Otto Energy

Otto Energy has been producing oil from its assets in the Philippines for the last three years, and has fantastic prospects going forward: it is all about balance, say its senior executives.

Otto Energy has been producing oil from its assets in the Philippines for the last three years, and has fantastic prospects going forward: it is all about balance, say its senior executives.

 

October 4, 2011
LAI Games: Timezone

Timezone has a time honoured format but is ahead of the games industry in every important respect, offering value for each dollar the customer spends.

Timezone has a time honoured format but is ahead of the games industry in every important respect, offering value for each dollar the customer spends.

 

May 23, 2011
Abu Dhabi Aviation

Abu Dhabi Aviation has grown from an oil industry helicopter service provider to a multifaceted international company. Search and rescue, fire fighting and construction are just the tip of the iceberg.

Abu Dhabi Aviation has grown from an oil industry helicopter service provider to a multifaceted international company. Ben Sansom lifts the lid to find that search and rescue, fire fighting and construction are just the tip of the iceberg.

 

October 27, 2010
Avocet Mining Plc

A major shift in strategy is now seeing this company adjusting its focus from South East Asia to West Africa, as Andrew Pelis discovers.

The saying “Go West, young man” has been a part of our language for over 150 years; and while its origins may have referred to America’s growing empire, the idea has been followed to the letter by one gold mining company, as Andrew Pelis discovers.

 

 

 

 

June 6, 2010
H.J.Heinz

Martin Ashcroft revisits HJ Heinz to see how the culture changing Heinz Global Performance System is driving sustainable continuous improvement through its sites all over the world

Martin Ashcroft revisits HJ Heinz to see how the culture changing Heinz Global Performance System is driving sustainable continuous improvement through its sites all over the world.

When I last wrote about HJ Heinz two years ago 1, Gary Thomas, Director of Global Continuous Improvement and Risk Management, told me how lean and six sigma were being used to drive a step change in performance in the company’s North American production facilities.

March 1, 2010
Newmont Ghana Gold

Heart of gold
Mining has come a long way from the old image of human and environmental desolation. Scott Santti explains to Gay Sutton how Newmont Ghana Gold has placed social sustainability at the heart of its operations.
The Newmont Mining Corporation is one of the world’s largest gold producing companies. With operations in the US, Canada, Mexico, Peru, Bolivia, Australia, New Zealand, Indonesia and Ghana, it has a portfolio of approximately 38,840 square miles of property and proven and probable gold reserves across all these regions totalling approximately 85 million ounces.

December 1, 2009
Newmont Asia Pacific

Everything is large in scale at Newmont Mining Corporation’s Boddington mine in Australia, including ethical responsibility. Tim Netscher, senior vice president of Asia Pacific operations, tells Gary Toushek about it.

Everything is large in scale at Newmont Mining Corporation’s Boddington mine in Australia, including ethical responsibility. Tim Netscher, senior vice president of Asia Pacific operations, tells Gary Toushek about it.

 

September 1, 2009
Euro Machinery

A moving experience
Earth moving equipment trader Euro Machinery has been undergoing an internal revolution over the past eight months, expanding the concept and scope of its operation from a family-run sales business to a comprehensive service provider, as Gay Sutton discovers from Henk Uphoff.
There are some unexpected parallels between the desires and ambitions of the general population and the cultural thinking of a business. Perhaps the most curious is ownership—just as many families prefer the security of owning the roof over their heads, many companies like the reassurance of owning the equipment they use. But that is slowly changing.

July 1, 2009
Cyclone Projects & Consulting

Constructive cyclones
Often the ancillary elements of a larger system provide some of the more interesting engineering solutions, as Dan Bailey discovers when investigating mining in southern Africa.
There are two inevitabilities about mining for certain types of minerals such as gold, platinum and chrome: they consume vast amounts of water and produce equally large quantities of waste. For example, one source reckons that for each kilogram of gold recovered, 240 kg of cyanide and 250,000 litres of water have been consumed and over 3,000 tonnes of solid waste and 25 tonnes of CO2 produced.

March 24, 2009
ThermaSource

Hot stuff Geothermal power is a growing renewable energy source, which is good news for ThermaSource, Inc., a leading geothermal drilling, engineering and consulting firm, executive vice president Jim Hanson tells Ruari McCallion. No one who has watched a volcano erupt, experienced an earthquake or watched a geyser blow off steam can fail to be impressed with the power of the planet. The challenge is, as always, how to control and tap it.