The Eurasian Development Bank and Eurasian Resources Group signed a memorandum of cooperation during the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum. Under the memorandum, the EDB will consider extending a credit facility to Sokolov-Sarbai Mining Production Association for pre-export financing and to finance the company’s investment program. ERG CEO Mr Benedikt Sobotka said “The new agreement with the EDB, with which we have been working for five years, will further enhance the sustainability of the iron ore giant SSGPO and strengthen cooperation with ERG as a whole. The understandings we reached will help to ensure sales of iron ore products in the long term as well as the implementation of SSGPO’s development strategy and investment projects using state-of-the-art technologies that meet ESG criteria. We work continuously to make sure that ERG products meet the highest standards and market needs. We are implementing the ERG Way, our production system, at SSGPO and other ERG’s entities. In doing so, we continue to improve our production and invest in the development of our employees.” Eurasian Resources Group is a leading diversified natural resources group with integrated mining, processing, energy, logistics, and marketing operations. The Group operates in 15 countries on four continents and is a major employer in the industry. ERG is the world’s largest high-carbon ferrochrome producer by chrome content and among the principal copper and cobalt suppliers. It is also one of the largest suppliers of alumina and iron ore in Eurasia and the only producer of high-grade aluminium in the Republic of Kazakhstan. In Kazakhstan, ERG represents one third of the metals and mining industry. It is also a key power supplier and a large railway operator in Central Asia. ERG manages production entities in Kazakhstan that are among the nation’s foremost enterprises, including Kazchrome, SSGPO, Kazakhstan Aluminium Smelter (KAS), Aluminium of Kazakhstan, Eurasian Energy Corporation, Shubarkol Komir, Transportation Group TransCom, 3-Energoortalyk and ERG Service. In Africa, ERG mines and processes copper and cobalt ore and produces copper and cobalt hydroxide. It has recently launched Metalkol Roan Tailings Reclamation, a major tailings reprocessing operation in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Metalkol RTR has become the world’s second largest standalone cobalt producer and is also a large producer of copper. The Group has further development projects in thermal coal, manganese, platinum, bauxite and fluorspar in South Africa, Zimbabwe, Mali and Mozambique. ERG controls its own supply chain on the continent through its company Sabot, a North-South Corridor logistics specialist. In the State of Bahia in Brazil, ERG is pioneering an integrated mining and logistics project comprising the Pedra de Ferro iron ore mine, the Porto Sul deep-water port and the associated new FIOL broad-gauge railway.
The Eurasian Development Bank and Eurasian Resources Group signed a memorandum of cooperation during the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum. Under the memorandum, the EDB will consider extending a credit facility to Sokolov-Sarbai Mining Production Association for pre-export financing and to finance the company’s investment program. ERG CEO Mr Benedikt Sobotka said “The new agreement with the EDB, with which we have been working for five years, will further enhance the sustainability of the iron ore giant SSGPO and strengthen cooperation with ERG as a whole. The understandings we reached will help to ensure sales of iron ore products in the long term as well as the implementation of SSGPO’s development strategy and investment projects using state-of-the-art technologies that meet ESG criteria. We work continuously to make sure that ERG products meet the highest standards and market needs. We are implementing the ERG Way, our production system, at SSGPO and other ERG’s entities. In doing so, we continue to improve our production and invest in the development of our employees.” Eurasian Resources Group is a leading diversified natural resources group with integrated mining, processing, energy, logistics, and marketing operations. The Group operates in 15 countries on four continents and is a major employer in the industry. ERG is the world’s largest high-carbon ferrochrome producer by chrome content and among the principal copper and cobalt suppliers. It is also one of the largest suppliers of alumina and iron ore in Eurasia and the only producer of high-grade aluminium in the Republic of Kazakhstan. In Kazakhstan, ERG represents one third of the metals and mining industry. It is also a key power supplier and a large railway operator in Central Asia. ERG manages production entities in Kazakhstan that are among the nation’s foremost enterprises, including Kazchrome, SSGPO, Kazakhstan Aluminium Smelter (KAS), Aluminium of Kazakhstan, Eurasian Energy Corporation, Shubarkol Komir, Transportation Group TransCom, 3-Energoortalyk and ERG Service. In Africa, ERG mines and processes copper and cobalt ore and produces copper and cobalt hydroxide. It has recently launched Metalkol Roan Tailings Reclamation, a major tailings reprocessing operation in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Metalkol RTR has become the world’s second largest standalone cobalt producer and is also a large producer of copper. The Group has further development projects in thermal coal, manganese, platinum, bauxite and fluorspar in South Africa, Zimbabwe, Mali and Mozambique. ERG controls its own supply chain on the continent through its company Sabot, a North-South Corridor logistics specialist. In the State of Bahia in Brazil, ERG is pioneering an integrated mining and logistics project comprising the Pedra de Ferro iron ore mine, the Porto Sul deep-water port and the associated new FIOL broad-gauge railway.
