Mining and Industrial Investment Consulting Co.: A Prestigious Consulting Enterprise in Mining Sector

The Mining and Industrial Investment Consulting Company under the Vietnam Coal Corporation is undertaking a consulting and modernisation programme to meet the demand of the market. The programme will also facilitate the development of the company to maintain its position as the leading consulting agency in the field.

With the direct participation of technicians, the board of directors and experts in consulting and designing, the company in the second quarter of 2004 finalised the key projects of modernising Khe Cham, Mao Khe, and Hong Thai coal mines of the Uong Bi Coal Company, adjusting technical designs of Ha Lam and Mong Duong mines, and formulating technical designs for a series of works in Hong Thai, Nam Mau, Mao Khe, Vang Danh and Ha Lam coal mines. Furthermore, it has equipped its subsidiaries with more modern technologies imported from Poland and China. The quality of its projects consequently has comprehensively been improved day by day.

The company's technical management and technology transfer have also been effectively implemented. Under the plan to modernise consultancy activities, the company has spent more than VND1 billion (US$64,102) on informatics equipment to serve training courses for mining designs. It is now developing software for designing pits and ventilation systems in mines, calculating water drainage and the capacity of equipment used in open-cast mines and pits, and organising courses for applying the software. The company's informatics department is handing over software for calculating coal reserves to the Deo Nai, Cao Son and Dong Bac companies. A draft plan to use machinery in mining and exploit coal by water power has also been worked out.

Under the coal industry's development strategy by 2010 and vision 2020 approved by the Prime Minister, the country's coal demand will sharply rise and the annual growth rate of coal consumption will be 10 per cent. The industry is therefore in urgent need of investment for expanding production, a heavy task, but also a great opportunity for the Mining and Industrial Investment Consulting Company in particularly and consulting companies in general.

To fulfil their responsibility, the company has formulated a sustainable development orientation by providing mining and industrial investment consulting services to meet all requirements of customers with the best quality, shortest period and the most reasonable prices. It will also continue improving designing and consulting activities to make its services more competitive to become one of the leading enterprises in the field in Vietnam and internationally. At the same time, the company will conduct research in technology transfers in the mining and industrial field. 

If it effectively realises its plans, the Mining and Industrial Investment Consulting Company will improve its quality management system in line with ISO 9001:2000 in the coming time, set up relations with many other industries to create more jobs, develop consulting activities domestically and internationally, modernise consulting and designing activities, create useful designing software, improve working capacity, reduce expenses, and improve the quality of consulting services. It will also develop technology transfers in the mining and industrial field and cooperation with domestic and foreign design institutes for experience exchanges.

• Ngoc Anh