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Mo Ing Mountains Summer 2010 Mo ing MountaHargreavesins Issue 13 News from the Hargreaves Group Xstrata contract win shows Hargreaves supply chain in action emonstrating the truly international nature of our D business, we are pleased to report that over the next three years, 240,000 tonnes of Monckton coke is being shipped to South Africa. It's a significant contract to supply Xstrata (one of the world's largest diversified mining companies) with metallurgical coke to an assured quality standard - and the deal represents a concentrated team effort by colleagues in different parts of our group. Our colleagues at Hargreaves Raw Material Services GmbH in Germany used their contacts with a large South African coal trading company, Effective Carbon Solutions (ECS) to effect a business introduction with Xstrata. Having convinced Xstrata of the quality of our product and our ability to meet stringent delivery requirements, two trial cargoes (of 18,000 tonnes and 10,000 tonnes) were despatched in 2009. Tests on Monckton coke works these cargoes proved beyond doubt In this issue ... that we could deliver precisely what Monckton Works Director Iain the end user needed. Archibald told Moving Mountains: P2 Maltby mine rescue team “Xstrata made it very clear from the triumph A senior Xstrata buyer made a site outset that the placing of a contract visit to Monckton; the visit was dependent on our coke being P3 Message from Gordon confirmed not just the quality of the made exclusively from Maltby coal. Banham coke, but also our meticulous Naturally we were able to assure P4 Energy & Carbon Policy attention to controls in the them that that was the case. This P5 Transport training contract production process and record contract will see X strata taking keeping. almost all of our +30mm size coke Video conferencing for the next three years. P6 Apprentices & The HRMS team sat down with Undergraduates Xstrata and concluded contract “This business demonstrates negotiations early in 2010, E.ON Hard Services perfectly how the Hargreaves supply contract confirming a deal to supply 80,000 chain can work. Maltby supply us tonnes of coke per year over a three with the coal. Our contract is with P7 Industrial Services Safety year period, beginning on June 1 HRMS, and they, in turn, have the Conference 2010. contract with the end user. It's total Help for Heroes integration from start to finish.” P8 C4 customers take aim Just Champion! Maltby team win 2010 Mines Rescue competition n 2009, Maltby Colliery's Mine The 2010 competition - “The hope is always that we will never I Rescue Team took part, for the how it happened have the need to mobilise our rescue first time, in the annual UK & team - but it is good to know that if Ireland Mine Rescue Competition. Having travelled to Ireland via the fast needed we can call upon a team who Staged at Boulby Mine in North catamaran service out of Holyhead, have the highest levels of competence Yorkshire it featured five teams - and the Maltby team arrived on the and professionalism”. the Maltby debutants were placed in evening of Friday 14 May - to discover third position overall. they were drawn to go first in the competition the following morning. Their appetites whetted by their That meant a 5 am alarm call and a performance, the Maltby team lost no 40-minute drive to the mine where time in entering the 2010 they met up with other teams in a competition, determined to improve special isolation area. their standing and go all-out to win this time around. The competition was split into three main sections: a simulated This year's competition was held in underground mine search and rescue May at the Anglo American-owned of two miners injured in a fire, The team prepare… Lisheen Mine, in County Tipperary in followed by a fitness and endurance the Irish Republic. test in full safety clothing and breathing apparatus, and finally an A total of six teams took part: three equipment fault-testing examination from England (Boulby Potash, Salt and questions on rescue procedures Union and Maltby) and three from and techniques. Ireland (Lisheen, Irish Salt and Tara) and the entire event proved to be an As an indication of the realism of the intensely competitive and hard- search and rescue part of the fought affair. competition, the organisers, IMQS, had an Irish Air Corps Augusta 135 The Maltby team not only won the helicopter on standby throughout in overall competition; in addition, case airlift support was required for Maltby team captain Derek Speirs was During the endurance test any participants. awarded the Irish Mining & Quarrying Society (IMQS) trophy and silver At the end of the day the examiners medal for best team captain's announced the overall results and our performance. Maltby team received their awards at A brief history a celebration dinner to mark the occasion. The competition was first held in Paul Wilson, Maltby Colliery's Health 1974 - and this year saw the 13th & Safety Manager told Moving staging of the competition in all. The Mountains: “The lads did themselves, contest came about through a desire the colliery and the company proud. It to promote mine safety in general, to was an outstanding performance that improve mine rescue techniques and built upon last year's very good capabilities in particular, and also to showing at Boulby. The victorious team ready to accept their awards. share skills and promote best practice (L-R: Terry Reagan; Derek Speirs (Captain); Sean across the wider mining industry. Cotney; Sean Henderson; Mick Wainwright; Steve Linford; Roger Siddall (Vice Captain); Lee Connell) zinc concentrates in Europe. Lisheen Mine (Some 6,300 tonnes of ore grade material are transported The Lisheen Mine is situated in to the surface every day). county Tipperary in the heart of the Irish Midlands. The mine is wholly owned by Anglo American plc, a mining It is now in its second decade company with operations in of operations and is currently six continents. one of the largest producers of 2 Our renewed commitment to Safety Health and the Environment ear Colleagues, favourable comparison with the very D best companies in our industry. To this end, the development of improved As a responsible publicly-quoted company policies and procedures is company we conduct our business by being led by our Production Division adhering to a number of simple - but Managing Director Gerry Huitson. vital - business principles. I realise that we are expecting a lot These principles drive and underpin from everyone as we develop this everything we do; they determine our improved culture; in return we will relationships with customers, with ensure that everyone is given suppliers, with our workforce, with adequate levels of training and the public, and they also define how instruction, with professional our operations impact on the supervision and support. environment. This renewed drive for improvement The diverse nature of our operations, extends far beyond our own in a wide variety of locations, means We must all strive to provide and workforce and our own workplaces. that the challenges we face are ever- maintain an open and honest health The same exacting standards that we changing. However one thing that and safety culture in the workplace. To apply to ourselves will also apply to must never change is our total achieve this, we must report all our contractors and suppliers. They commitment to the safe, efficient and accidents and incidents; we must also will need to demonstrate their own responsible running of our business. report all 'near-misses' - anything that adherence to the highest possible has the potential to cause injury to standards in the areas of safety, health Recent months have seen us begin a people or damage to property, plant and the environment programme of further improvements and equipment. Alongside this in the key areas of safety, health and scrupulous reporting we will ensure Put simply, there is no place for risk- environment and in the months to that we have robust investigations taking within our organisation. By come everyone in the Hargreaves that will not only tackle problems, but working together we aim to eliminate group of companies will be expected solve them in a way that improves our risk and develop our business in a safe to further commit to upholding the performance. and sustainable manner. highest operating standards in these aspects of our business. Together with my fellow Executive Board members, I am determined that Gordon Banham Hargreaves will be capable of Group Chief Executive ...........Editorial elcome to the Summer 2010 fundamental to our collective well- (usually theirs!) don't. My simple issue of Moving Mountains. being and each of them will assume answer to that question is: if I don't W As usual, we've done our even greater importance as time know what's going on in your part of best to cram in news and views from goes on. Every one of us will be the company then I can't write about around the Hargreaves group of expected to be involved in it! companies, and I hope you find continuous improvement in each of The solution is simple: if you have plenty of stories to interest you this these areas. something newsworthy that you time around. We'll continue to focus on these want to share with the rest of the You'll have noticed pretty quickly important topics in future issues of Hargreaves group then do let your that in this issue there are a lot of Moving Mountains - with the next editor know. The old British Telecom features that deal with safety, health edition planned for the Autumn.
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