Ming Chang sets up brick manufacturing plant

Chinese mining firm, Ming Chang Sino-Africa Mining Investments (Ming Chang) has set up a multi-million-dollar brick-making plant at Bell Riverlea Plant in Kwekwe, as the firm diversifies its business portfolio.

According to the firm, the development comes as part of its plan to support the Government of Zimbabwe’s National Development Strategy 1 (NDSI) of industrial development and employment creation.

NDS1 is the country’s first five-year medium-term plan aimed at realising Vision 2030 of transforming the economy into an upper middle-income economy while at the same time addressing the global aspirations of the Sustainable Development Goals and Africa Agenda 2063.

The brick-making plant currently employs 21 Zimbabweans under the supervision of one Chinese who is the manager for the plant.

The plant has a daily production capacity of 20 000 bricks and is producing the coloured and hollow bricks to meet different specified needs of its customers.

“This investment is part of the company’s plans to assist Zimbabwe’s revived reindustrialisation strategy as well as creating employment. The company has shown its capacity in various portfolios where it has managed to create employment and modernize the mining sector.

“The brick-making plant in Kwekwe has already employed about 21 locals and this is just the beginning as the company will be considering expanding its production capacity in the future,” Ming Chang Sino-Africa Mining Investments said.

The mining firm has also embarked on several community empowerment projects with the recent being an investment in transport infrastructure in the Samona communal areas of Mashonaland Central province that will link the community to agriculture markets and social amenities.

The company is also refurbishing the local clinic that has been closed for some time. Ming Chang Sino-Africa Mining Investments has gold operations in Shamva, Shurugwi, Bindura, Mazowe, Kwekwe, Kadoma as well as a gold processing plant in Bubi, Matabeleland North province. – The Chronicle