ࡱ> ,.+y bjbjEE 4'' AAAAAUUUU a U90mmmmm\\\i :A\\\\\AAmm\AmAm\m)~hU 09EEEA(\\\\\\\\\\9\\\\E\\\\\\\\\ : THE MERCURY, WEDNESDAY 30 JAN 2008 NPC lands Dube Tradeport concrete contract January 30, 2008 Edition 1 Suren Naidoo KWAZULU-NATAL-based NPC Concrete has landed its biggest contract yet. It has been awarded a lucrative ready-mixed concrete supply deal for the construction of the landmark new R7 billion Dube Tradeport (DTP) and King Shaka International Airport (KSIA) at La Mercy, north of Durban. NPC Concrete has set up two batching plants to supply the 180 000m3 of concrete to this project. With concrete plants at Sterkspruit and Umlaas Road in the west, Tinley Manor and La Mercy in the north and at ParkRynie and Margate in the South, NPC Concrete is increasingly becoming a dynamic player in NPC group. NPC Cement, the flagship company in the group, is the key cement maker and supplier to the province. The new airport, which is planned for completion in time for the 2010 Fifa World Cup, will replace the Durban International Airport. NPC will be supplying ready-mixed concrete for the massive project from its on-site plants, which are capable of producing up to 1 000 m3 a day. One of the new airport's outstanding features is the runway, which will be significantly longer than the runway at Durban International - and this will enable the new airport to handle large aircraft, such as the new jumbo Airbus A380. NPC Concrete managing director Avi Bhoora said the company's two concrete plants at DTP/KSIA included a new high-output wet-batch plant. Objectives "Our new wet-batch facility is expected to provide most of our ready-mix output over the life of the 18-month or longer contract. During that time, we anticipate producing 180 000m3 of ready-mix. "In terms of concrete supply this will, to the best of my knowledge, be the biggest project in the region - larger even than the 2010 stadium and the Durban harbour- widening project," he said. Bhoora said that NPC would operate in line with the project's overall black economic empowerment objectives. "The delivery of concrete from our plants to the numerous sites around DTP/KSIA will be handled primarily by contracted owner-operated trucks, rather than our own vehicles," he said. "This shifts a portion of the profit potential to these BEE entities. To make this work for all concerned, we have undertaken to contract with BEE lorry-owner driver schemes for five years because that is the only way they can receive the necessary truck financing. "NPC Concrete is accepting the market risk that there will be work for these contracted businesses during the three-year period after the airport is complete," he said. "We are introducing wet-batch concrete technology (also known as central mix or pre-mix concrete) to our network of plants in KZN because of the quality control it offers. All of the ready-mix ingredients are mixed in our plants themselves, enabling us to supply a higher volume of well-mixed, consistent concrete." Wet-batch concrete is mixed in a stationary concrete plant rather than the mixer-delivery truck. 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