– 20 the degree of power did not produce to us any harm, production was maintained. We do not have any big production losses nor metallurgical production had to be limited – he said at a press conference Vice President of Management Board of KGHM Polish Copper Marcin Chmielewski.
As he spoke, the introduction on Monday by the national power distributor 20. power level for KGHM was “really a big surprise.” It meant that ordered power of 399 MW a day, you had to “come down immediately by almost 25 per cent. To 302 MW.”
“managed to run gas-steam blocks”
– Thanks to the successful cooperation between our power distributors, engineers who are responsible for production, were able to run our gas-steam blocks. They have a combined power of two times 25 MW and we were able to recover from this lost capacity of 50 MW – said Chmielewski. In addition, he said, he reorganized the production of mining, including during the day they are not mined ore to the surface, trapping it underground, suspended conveyor belt, and work, and work is performed overnight.
According to Chmielewski, gas and steam units in Polkowice and Głogów were built after blackoutach (start up current – PAP) in 2009. when four hours there was a paralysis in electricity supply, resulting existed a real danger that the lives of workers working underground may be jeopardized.
– The former board of directors, chaired by Herbert Wirth decided that such a situation never could in the company’s history to repeat that human life was in danger – he said Chmielewski. As he spoke, exclusion also threatened smelting, because “stopping the furnace where it is melted copper would mean that you would have to build a new steel mill.”
construction of gas-steam units completed in the fall of 2014., and also after 2009. it carried out a complete modernization of the supply mines and steelworks.
Larger capacities
– Today the situation is such that we have doubled or tripled the power source. In each hut and each mine supply of energy from two independent suppliers – assured Vice-President.
According to KGHM, even in the absence of electricity supply from outside the company we are able to ensure the supply of energy for the safe evacuation of 4.5 thousand. employees of the mine to the surface.
On Thursday KGHM Group announced financial results for the first half 2015 revenues amounted .: zł 10.1 billion and net income of 1.2 billion zł in comparison with the same period last year increased by 8 percent. According to the vice-president of the Board of KGHM on. Financial Jaroslaw Romanowski, the results after the first half of this year indicate that the outcome of KGHM at the end of the year will be comparable to 2014.
As the company said, in the first half of this year. copper equivalent production in the KGHM Group increased by 2 percent. This change occurred both in KGHM Polish Copper SA and KGHM International, where growth is associated with higher production results in the mine Robinson. According to the company, KGHM continued cost discipline – the unit cost of copper production C1 in conditions comparable to the first half of 2014 with respect to commodity and exchange, decreased by 3 percent for the entire Group. At the same time there was also an increase in the volume of sales of copper and gold, which at the favorable exchange rate resulted in achieving higher levels of sales revenue by 5 percent compared to the same period of 2014.
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