Metal
Ginger SOFRECO owns a unique experience in every sector of the metals industry. Our fully integrated expertise covers mining, processing, metals manufacturing, and distribution.
We handle entire project lifecycles, from conceptual studies to EPC supervision.
With decades of experience in metal related industries, Ginger SOFRECO has been involved in the implementation of projects worth several billion USD in investments, in which we have provided consultancy services from feasibility studies to project commissioning.
Our services
Process & engineering services
Process & engineering services
Should you face an operation issue, we can provide the following services:
- Plant audit
- Debottlenecking studies
- Improvement of operations
- HR Development
- Training of operators and staff
Providing to our clients the best of our knowledge to efficiently manage energy:
- Energy audits
- Cogeneration
- Improvement of energy efficiency
Support you in managing social and environmental impacts:
- Environmental and social impact assessments
- Resettlement plans
- Health, Safety and the Environment management, quality assurance
- Climate change studies
- Environmental and social corporate responsibility
Pre-feasibility and feasibility studies
Pre-feasibility and feasibility studies
Develop your projects, from conceptual to bankable feasibility studies:
- Process design definition and optimization
- Test works supervision
- Selection of technology
- Market studies
- Investment and cost estimate
- Financial and economic analysis
- Project scheduling
PMC services
PMC services
A tailor made support to manage your project up to delivery:
- Procurement management
- Contract Management
- Standards and procedures
- Project control
- Interface management
- Review of engineering packages
- Supervision of construction works, start-up and test runs until provisional and final acceptance
Business advisory services
Business advisory services
Ginger SOFRECO metal industry actors in commercial, technical and administrative management:
- Market approach
- Corporate restructuring
- Product development and diversification
- Industrial complex organisation and management
- Procurement assistance
- Stocks and maintenance management systems
Support to lenders and donors
Support to lenders and donors
Ginger SOFRECO provides consultancy and engineering services to financing institutions to ensure cost controlled implementation meeting lenders’ objectives:
- Review of feasibility and engineering studies
- Review of EPC contracts with regard to lenders’ rules
- Review of the project business plan and financial model
- Approval of loan disbursements and verification of the use of funds received from the lenders
- Monitoring of construction and production during the loan life period
- Monitoring of production during loan-life period
Our projects
Ginger SOFRECO provided assistance to VTM for the supervision of the Lao Cai Cast Iron and Steel Plant Project including: a sintering plant, a blast furnace, a steel plant and ancillary installations.
Ginger SOFRECO estimated the investment cost of the Lao Cai steel plant project.
Installations included storage and handling, a sintering plant (capacity 860 000t/year), a blast furnace (capacity 530 000 t/year), a steel plant (continuous casting, capacity 500 000 t/year), auxiliary equipment (including the production of oxygen and nitrogen, capacity 10 000 m3/h), and a supply plant 110 kV/10kV/100 MVA.
Ginger SOFRECO realized an assessment of the laboratory’s capacities in terms of mineral and chemical analysis, geophysics and topography, human resources, organization and operations and equipment.
The work aimed to strengthen the laboratory’s operational capacities and train its staff and prepare a feasibility study of the installation of a mineral pilot treatment centre within BUMIGEB.
Proposal of privatisation strategies and/or definition of prior restructuring of 12 Affiliate Companies of the Metallurgical Industries Holding Co. (MIHC) and provision of advice and support to the MIHC in implementing the privatisation of 9 affiliate companies.
The sectors targeted were steel, aluminium, ferro-alloys, non-ferrous metals, metallic construction, mining, glass and refractories, railway stock, and river transport..