Minerals operations company Minopex managed to survive the financial difficulties experienced last year completely unscathed and, in fact, experienced above-average growth in terms of staff increases and turnover, Shared Services director Stephaan Nel tells Mining Weekly.
He says that staff numbers increased by between 15% and 22%, since 2007/8, and the companycrushers 200 tph capacity continues to generate a turnover in excess of R1-billion a year and is comfortably achieving its taflamingo hollow grinding machinerget growth goals of 20% a year.
“Many of Minopex’s clients felt the effectsjaw crushers manufacturer in pakistan of the financial difficulties last year, leading them to cut costs. We saw this as a good opportunity to assist in bringing down costs and pushing up production, and we became a part of the solution to their economic hardships and not just another expense,” Nel says.
Minopex negotiates discounts with its suppliers that it passes on to clients, which has the benefit of ensuring supply, decreasing stock levels in stores and placing more capital into clients’ hands.
Over the past two years, Minopex has restructured its internal policies and pro- cedures, as well as updated its corporate governance and reassessed whether the company’s infrastructure can accommodate the type of growth that is expected now that the economy is turning around and things are starting to look up again.