Information about the Combinat

Designed for many years Navoi Mining and Metallurgical Combinat (NMMC) industrial and economic activity is directed on maintenance of steady growth of economic potential and social stability of the Republic of Uzbekistan by means of further increase of raw mineral resources efficiency, increase of highly liquid production and intensive development of new manners of manufacture.

 

Gold and uranium form the basis NMMC activity as an industrial enterprise is founded on.

Besides the Combinat develops deposits of phosphorites, common salt, facing stone (gabbro, granite, marble), sand for mortar and foundry, chalkstone. The Combinat being a multi-industry mining and processing company, nevertheless, pays main attention to gold production that assists strengthening of economic power of Uzbekistan.

 

NMMC structure is comprised of five major mining and metallurgical enterprises (Navoi, Uchkuduk, Zarafshan, Nurabad, Zafarabad cities were built on their bases), as well as “Navoi Machine Building Plant” Production Association and Zarafshan Construction Management; the Combinat activity covers four regions in the republic. All the above cities are on balance of the Combinat and are connected among themselves with roads and railways, power lines included in the integrated power grid of the republic. Moreover they have independent life-support systems, including district heating and water supply, modern housing facilities, objects of social sphere. The Combinat has kept its economic relations and gained recognition in the CIS countries and in the world business community.

 

Thanks to active support and constant attention from the Government and President of Uzbekistan I.A.Karimov personally the Combinat has managed not only to stay in the top ten of the leading world companies in gold and uranium production for the years of independence, but also to secure the status of industrial giant and the unique state company. By the sizes of the territory occupied, level of activity and profitability for the state, producing capacities, broad assortment of production, number of the employees involved, amount of financing of social programs the Combinat is the largest company in the republic and makes the essential contribution to regional development and social stability of Uzbekistan. Today NMMC employs about 65 thousand people, over 58 % of them work in industrial production. The Combinat has rich industrial and social infrastructure which area occupies hundred thousands of square kilometers. ~250 thousand people live and work here and their well-being is connected with the Combinat to some extent. The Combinat activity has a favorable effect on the life of the whole Kizilkum region, all four regions of the republic. Taking care of people is our priority in the field of social policy. Without maintenance of worthy and favorable working and living conditions any conversations about fine future become meaningless.

The President of Uzbekistan I.A.Karimov and Government of the Republic pay great attention to Navoi Combinat, special significance to maintenance of its stable operation, solution of actual problems, increase of production volumes, issues regarding health care of its employees and their families, education and satisfaction of spiritual needs. This circumstance enhances responsibility of the Combinat in the sphere of social policy both before workers and the region in whole. NMMC has not only kept its social traditions but also develops them successfully. Medical sanitary units, boarding houses, holiday and recreation centers, after-work sanatoriums, sports complexes, preschool institutions and summer health camps are financed by the Combinat. Annual social expenses are equal to over 80 million US dollars including ~60 million dollars for maintenance of social objects. NMMC social infrastructure consists of housing stock with 2,7 million m2 of total area, six medical and sanitary facilities providing services for 200 thousand people, educational institutions for 2,6 thousand students, children's city and country summer camps, two sanatoriums, holiday center "Lazurnaya" and boarding house “Gornyak”, sports complexes with swimming pools, sports halls, stadiums, tennis courts and other facilities, 9 palaces of culture, as well as various creative clubs and art workshops, city parks, recreation areas and other objects.

 

Without purposeful personnel policy it is impossible to solve problems of production volumes and efficiency increase. According to the National program on personnel training the comprehensive program of personnel development and effective involvement, provision of the Combinat with qualified professionals is developed and realized. NMMC has constant monitoring system of current and perspective demands in different specialists on the labour-market.

 

The educational-scientific-and-production complex of proactive personnel training is formed. A well-composed system of professional training, retraining and improvement of professional skills of specialists and workers allows to satisfy need in specialists in all subdivisions of the enterprise. In the course of a year more than ten thousand employees of various categories from workers to managers study and get advanced training in the training centers.  As the head of the state emphasizes there has been formed the system of continuous education in the republic allowing our youth to self-fulfill and find a worthy place in the society. About 2200 new jobs were created last year in the Combinat to go with the times solving problems on modernization, technical and technological updating of mining and processing production. Specialists with higher education are trained for Navoi Combinat in the republican higher educational institutions and those of especially demanded professions study in the near and far abroad. Specialists with secondary special and vocational education are trained in three educational institutions: Navoi, Zarafshan and Uchkuduk colleges. Almost two and a half thousand students are majoring in 22 professions. All colleges are equipped with modern equipment, computer and language classes, multimedia equipment, industrial practice workshops allowing to conduct educational process at high level.

 

Work on children's sports, health improvement, healthy lifestyle promotion and physical development is actively conducted. Approximately 30 thousand of employees and members of their families participate in sport life of the Combinat. Work on sport and health improvement is conducted in 8 physical training and sports clubs and 96 physical training teams. Modern sports complexes, swimming pools are available to any worker of our Combinat. Sportsmen of the Combinat participate in the championships of international and republican levels in basketball, boxing, volleyball, calisthenics, swimming, weightlifting, fencing, powerlifting, tae kwon do, motor racing, streetball, football, arm wrestling, parachuting, various kinds of wrestling. There are hundreds of gold, silver and bronze medals in the collection of the Combinat sportsmen. Licenses for participation of NMMC sportsmen in XXIX summer Olympic games in Beijing (2008) in swimming, calisthenics, weightlifting, tae kwon do WTF and fencing were obtained. In whole the work on physical training and health improvement promotes healthy lifestyle, development of children's sports, health improvement of the rising generation, harmonious physical development of our Combinat employees and members of their families.

Medical and sanitary department (MSD) with its branched network of medical institutions functions within NMMC structure. МSD out-patient departments and polyclinics provide services in 20 specialties in five adult, three pediatric, three dental polyclinics, five antenatal clinics, two pediatric and two dentist offices in the polyclinics of  general profile. The Combinat employees, about fifty thousand of their children, more than eleven thousand pensioners get service here and over twenty thousand people who do not work in the Combinat and live in the nearest settlements also get free medical services annually.

Over 14000 vouchers to boarding house “Gornyak” and holiday center "Lazurnaya", sanatoriums “Metallurg” and “Shahtyor”, sanatoria of Uzbekistan and the CIS countries are assigned annually for health improvement of the employees and their families. Special care in the Combinat is given to health of the rising generation. The network of children's polyclinics and hospitals is developed. In antenatal clinics work on timely registration of pregnant women and their maximum health improvement by the time of delivery is organized. During summer period more than 14 thousand children rest in the country and city camps "Orlyonok", “Zolotinka”, "Iskorka", "Gorniy", "Olimpiets" which are exemplary children's health resorts of Uzbekistan.

 

The Combinat actively participates in the cultural life of the Kizilkum region. In order to create conditions for the development of its employees’ talents NMMC trade union council has in its charge 9 culture centers and clubs where 140 amateur talent groups, 20 circles of applied arts with more than 2000 children and adult members. The resource centre in spiritual culture development is Palace of Culture “Farkhad” which plays the basic role in organization of children's contests “Kizilkum San’at Gunchalari” and “Voices of the Kizilkums”. These contests became a starting point for creative growth of the Combinat talented youth. The soloists of palaces of culture and talent groups, who become winners of republican and international contests, promote the recognition of authority of our republic in cultural circles of the world community.

 

Members of the fine art studio and club of young technicians achieve high results. More than 280 children have joined them. The best works have been awarded at exhibitions, competitions and contests in the republic and abroad many times. The most important condition of the Combinat sustainable development is constant perfection of production management methods meeting the international standards. In this regard the integrated system of quality control, ecology and industrial safety is introduced and certified on its conformity to ISO 9001:2000, ISO 14001:2004 and OHSAS 18001:1999 standard requirements. Certificates for “Precious metals and phosphorite production”, “Manufacture of polyvinylchloride and polyethylene pipes” and “Design and production of jewelry from precious metals alloys” have been received; supervisory audit of the introduced management system has been carried out.

The London Bullion Market Association gave the status of good delivery to Uzbek , refinery in 1994 and in 2006 this status was confirmed. The certificate of Tokyo Commodity Exchange confirming the quality of gold made by NMMC was received.

 

For the years of Uzbekistan independence the role of the country scientific institutions has greatly increased in the Combinat activity. Besides Uzbek scientific-research and project institute of industrial technology (“Uzgeotehliti”) great volume of scientific research and pilot design works has been done by Uzbek Institute of Nuclear Physics of Academy of Science (AS) of the Republic of Uzbekistan, State Geological Enterprise "Kiziltepageology", Institute of Microbiology of AS, Scientific Production Association “Technologist”, Tashkent State Technical University, Tashkent Motor Road institute, Institute of General and Inorganic Chemistry of AS, Institute of Fertilizers of AS, Navoi State Mining Institute, etc.

 

Creating new productions, providing modernization and introduction of competitive goods, we do not forget about the most important value: Man, Worker, Creator, whose hands built our cities, plants, mines in the most difficult desert conditions. We are proud of our collective, again and again we emphasize that people are the main riches of the Kizilkum land, gold reserves of Navoi Combinat. The Combinat social policy is directed on improvement of working and life conditions, living standards of employees that allows to make a considerable contribution to regional development and social stability.

 

International Co-operation

NMMC co-operates with many companies that represent actually the whole our Planet: from the United States and Canada to Australia and Japan.

Lasting business relations have been established with the world-wide known Companies, such as Orenstein & Koppel, Atlas Copco, Wirtgen, Caterpillar, Euclid, NM Rothschield & Sons Limited, Marubeni, Bridgestone, Shell, Spectro Analytical Instruments, Hitachi, Nissho Iwai, LRS Plannung und Technologie, Wirth, Dobersek, Allweiler, GERMED, Grundfos, NUKEM GmbH, Siemens, MAN TAKRAF and etc.. Delegations of business partners are constantly coming to Navoi. Contracts are being concluded and joint projects are being discussed.

NMMC is one of the founders of American – Uzbek Chamber of Commerce. Founded in September 1993 it represents non-commercial organization including companies interested in development of bilateral commerce and investments between the United States and Uzbekistan.

In 1996 presentations of mineral base and sources of raw materials of Uzbekistan took place in the U.S.A. and Japan where foreign companies showed the enormous interest towards NMMC.

NMMC permanently co-operates with international organizations involved into solving environmental problems. IAEA’s specialists and technical experts visited our production facilities many times, studied ecological conditions and obtained complete information on all matters they are interested in. NMMC takes part in TACIS Environmental Program of the European Union, closely co-operates with foreign companies that are charged with responsibilities of executing this Program.

        In autumn 1996 IAEA’s delegation, including representatives of the companies using our uranium and specialists in radiation safety from Sweden, visited NMMC. The delegation appreciated very much the environment protection measures taken at the uranium facilities of NMMC.

 

International Prizes

High quality and prestige of Uzbekistan’s gold were evaluated by a lot of prizes that NMMC obtained from various International Organizations:

-         “Editorial Office”, Madrid, Spain:

November 1991, 1992, 1993, 1995 – Awards for the Best Name in Trade;

June 1993 – Award for Commercial Prestige;

April 1993, 1994, November 1999, May 2002 – Awards for Quality;

October 1996 –10th Anniversary of the International Europe Award For Quality.

- “International Convention”, Mexico City, Mexico:

April 1993 – “Diamond Star for Quality”.

- “International Marketing and Quality Association”, Mexico City, Mexico:

November 1998 – “Worldwide Prestige Award” (“Agama” and “Zarispark” Firms were awarded).

- “Business Initiative Direction” (B.I.D.), Madrid, Spain:

November 1993, 1994 – “Gold Star for Quality”;

November 1994 - “Gold Star for Quality”, “American Prize for Technology”;

November 1996 – “World Quality Commitment Award”;

July 2000 – “Platinum Award for Excellence and Business Prestige”, Quality Summit in New-York;

July 2002 – “International Award for Quality”, Quality Summit in New-York (“Agama” Firm was awarded).

- “East Development Foundation”, Wilmington, Delaware, U.S.A.:

October 1995 – “Gold Globe” for contribution into development of the country economy and world economy integration.

- EUROMARKET FORUM, Brussels, BELGIUM May 1998, 2000, 2002 - Trophy for Quality.

- Global Quality Management, Geneva, Switzerland November 2000 - “Quality and Effective Environmental Management Award”.

26th International Salon in Geneva, Switzerland: Bronze Medal, 1998.

Association of Advanced Technologies in Mining Industry, Delaware, U.S.A.: certificate of Membership, 1999.

       NMMC’s gold was awarded the Good Delivery Status by Arbitrary Laboratory of London Bullion Market Association (LBMA) in 1994 and Quality Certificate by Tokyo Commodity Exchange in 1997.