Engineering and project management services company K'Enyuka has completed an internal restructure that will channel its future focus into the three key areas of engineering, project management and project services — and has hired additional professional engineers to galvanise each division.

K’Enyuka specialises in providing engineering and management services to the hydro-pyro metallurgical, mineral processing and chemical industries, as well as industrial plant and commercial building services. “This three-pronged approach will ensure that the focus is placed firmly on quality, where it belongs,” K’Enyuka managing director, Mike Symonds, says. “We’re now perfectly geared for the medium term future, in terms of expertise and flexibility.

“This development dovetails very well with the recent formal consolidation of skills among the linked enterprises associated with Read, Swatman & Voigt (RSV) (Pty) Ltd, to create the ‘RSV Group’. All enterprises linked to RSV — including K’Enyuka — are now able to draw from one another’s capabilities, building on a common high value brand.

“This will allow us to compete against Tier 1 global consulting houses for both local and international projects, while still servicing mining companies with professionally designed and executed smaller projects. This flexibility is already in play with a multi-million rand platinum concentrator project underway at one end of the scale alongside a heap leach project for a gold operation at the other. “EPCM, EPC and turnkey contracts are all within our range of capabilities, while our regional office in Rustenburg is spearheading our Stay In Business project offering for customers in the North West Province.”

After emerging in good shape from the global economic crisis, K’Enyuka has secured a healthy mix of projects, including two major contracts which allowed the company to ramp up again very quickly. Current high level projects include detailed design and support facilities for Rhodium Reefs’ new 90 ktpm Mareesburg greenfields open-pit/concentrator project on the Eastern Limb, near Steelpoort, and a smelter expansion project for a major commodities organisation. Construction is well underway on this ferromanganese furnace and all major contractors are now on site.

“As these projects near their conclusion, we’ve set our sights on extending our presence in other regions of the African mining environment, while increasing our current involvement in Australasia and the America’s,” comments Symonds. “We’ve identified several business opportunities, particularly in heavy minerals and copper projects in Africa, as well as in coal, in countries that include Zambia, the DRC, Tanzania, Mozambique, Madagascar and Zimbabwe.

“Technical expertise is one of our primary strengths, drawn from a pool of relatively young engineers with fresh and innovative ideas, working alongside the stalwarts who have been involved in some of the largest heavy mineral concentrator plants in the world. Pound for pound, we have one of the best concentrations of experts compared to our competitors.”