Swedish Sandvik Group’s subsidiary Sandvik Asia has bagged contracts worth INR 143 crore from NMDC Ltd and Mormugao Port Trust. NMDC is setting up a 7 million tonnes per annum iron ore beneficiation facility, which involves a conveyor system for transportation of iron ore at Kirandul in Dantewada district in Chhattisgarh, India. NMDC has awarded the INR 116 crore contract to Sandvik Asia for design, engineering, manufacture, supply, construction, erection, testing, and commissioning and performance test of the system. The scope of work also includes technological equipment, civil, structural and electrical works and service facilities like cranes, hoists, water supply and dust suppression facilities on a turnkey basis. Sandvik Asia has also bagged an INR 27 crore contract from Mormugao Port Trust for design, manufacture and supply of bulk handling machines to handle iron ore.
