“We’ve began to provide pig iron, which is a uncooked materials used for the manufacturing of metal. By July, that’s once we will begin to produce the precise carbon metal,” Motsi stated.
He didn’t say how lengthy the primary part would final.
Tsingshan, one of many world’s main nickel producers, has made important investments in Zimbabwe in recent times. Other than the metal plant, Tsingshan additionally has ferrochrome, coking coal and lithium mining companies within the southern African nation.
The corporate has additionally constructed a 50 megawatt thermal energy plant at Dinson. The metal plant will generate further energy via gasoline produced by its furnace, to satisfy 20% of its electrical energy wants.
The corporate additionally plans to construct a solar energy plant to cut back the influence of Zimbabwe’s electrical energy shortages on its operations.
(By Philimon Bulawayo and Nelson Banya; Enhancing by Barbara Lewis)