Zimbabwe Moves Up the Line to Heavy Industry
The Dinson Iron and Steel Company in Manhize is ready to produce steel bars
Zimbabwe is now moving rapidly towards becoming one of the top major heavy industrial centres in Africa and the future African Continental Free Trade Area as it converts its vast range of mineral wealth into the materials that manufacturers and others use to make the final products. Already the new giant steelworks of Dinson Iron and Steel Company, the local subsidiary of Tsingshan Holdings of China, at Manhize is in production and has moved beyond pig iron and steel billets to steel bar, with other materials, such as sheet steels, in the pipeline and the specialist stainless steels coming in future phases. Now a second base metallurgical industrial centre, this time by Xintai, the local subsidiary of Xinganglian (Shanxi) Holdings of China, is rising near Beitbridge with the Palm River Energy Metallurgical Economic Zone that will be centred on another major stainless steel production investment. These two giant investments are being fed by the ferrochrome smelters and nickel processing that is already in place and which are being expanded, not least by another ferrochrome smelter in the Palm River complex. Both steel complexes have their coking plants, Dinson’s at Hwange and Xintai’s at Palm River. ReadMore