Altai Zam JSC
In 1935, the National People’s Congress of the People’s Republic of Mongolia decided to establish a road department in Khovd province, and the foundation of the Altai Road Company was laid with the establishment of the “Road Department”. Road departments of Zavkhan in 1940, Uvs in 1959, Bayan-Ulgii in 1960 branched from this Road Department. It was the foundation for the construction of roads and bridges and further development in the western region.
In 1992, it was organized as a state-ownership dominated “Roads” Joint Stock Company, and then in 1996, under the Mongolian Partnership Law, it was transformed into Altai Zam Joint Stock Company and started operating with a charter capital of MNT 103.9 million.
“Altai Zam” JSC has been operating under the New Progress Group since 2003. By expanding the company’s material base, equipment, machinery and machinery base, strengthening the resources of experienced personnel and providing optimal management. Year by year, the production and construction volume increases, and it occupies a leading position in the road industry.
Also, since 2014, we have expanded our activities in the field of soil stripping, extraction of mineral resources, customs clearance by increasing our base of work experience, manpower, and technical equipment, and have been working in a leading position in the field.
Advantages and achievements of the company
Great experience: “Altai Zam” company is the first company established in the western region and has been working continuously and successfully for 86 years in the road sector and 8 years in the mining sector.
Material base: “Altai Zam” company is a professional organization fully equipped with every kind of machinery and equipment required for the successful completion of all road and mining works.
Ecological partnership company: Every time the road construction is completed, the used quarries are restored to their normal condition, and compensation for the use of sand and gravel is paid each time, which is used for ecological restoration through the local budget revenue. On the other hand, the construction of highways eliminates dozens of branch roads and allows traffic to continue on only one road, which can be very important in reducing desertification, soil erosion, and sand migration.
Primary development: Mongolia’s second largest airport, Khovd Province Airport and the work on the expansion of the heavy-duty aircraft takeoff and landing runway with an area of 172.3 thousand m2 have been successfully completed. Also, in the high mountain region of the Altai Mountains, soil stripping and coal mining work is being successfully carried out for the first time in harsh mountain conditions.
THE FIRST ROAD COMPANY WHICH INTRODUCED STANDARDS OF QUALITY AND OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY AND HYGIENE: The first road company that introduced ISO 9001:2008 Quality Management System and OHSAS 18001:2007 Occupational Safety and Hygiene Management System.
It is the first company which fully implements the ISO450001:2018 international standards of Occupational Health and Safety in its operations in 2021.
Experienced workforce
“Altai Zam” JSC has 553 full-time employees and 40% of all employees are highly skilled workers with more than 5 years of experience in their field.
The company is one of the few domestic companies that only employs Mongolian workers, and in cooperation with local Labor Welfare Services departments, it not only provides jobs to rural people, but also regularly conducts professional orientation training for them.
In order to pay attention to the social problems of its employees, assist and reward them, it started cash accumulation in the “Social Development Fund” of the company.
Workers’ camp
The camp for the project workers has a total of 2300 m2 with a total capacity of 450 people per shift, including a complete cafeteria, day-room, food storage, apartment, shower for workers, toilet, laundry workshop. A basketball court, a volleyball court, and a fitness room were also furnished for the employees’ leisure time. In addition, in 2022, a new camp extension with 1500m2 and 48 rooms was built and put into operation.
Contractors
Over 60 people from Ulz Gol Group LLC, Hera Equipment LLC, Power Blast LLC, Munkhtetgegch Khuch LLC, Talst Blast LLC and Bambai Security work.
Equipment
Since 2017, the equipment pool has been constantly updated by investing in the latest techniques.
As of today, the Khushuut Project is operating with 177 pieces of equipment, of which 88 are its own equipment and 89 are leased equipment.
Latest techniques in our ownership:
– Dump truck of MT86, SANY, Tonly – 42
– Loaders of SEM660D, LIOGONG, Lonking LG855B, XCMG ZL50ZV, XCMG LV500F – 17
– Excavators of CAT349, CAT374, CAT390, CAT395, Hyundai R290LC, Hyundai R520LC – 11
– Water and fuel truck of Dong feng, Hyundai brand – 6
– Bulldozers of CATD8, CATD9 – 2
– Grader CATM14 – 1
– Passenger cars of LAND 76, LAND 78, LAND 79, LAND 200 – 5
– Other trailers, tugs, cranes, trucks – 4.
Awards
- Trustworthy Taxpayer from Khovd Province Tax Office
- Builder of the Millennium Road
- The best enterprise of Khovd province
- Enterprise introduced the best technology
- Enterprise introduced international accounting standards, the Minister of Finance and Economy of Mongolia
- Trustworthy Taxpayer, Tax Office of Khovd Province
- Trustworthy Taxpayer of Mongolia, National Tax Office of Mongolia
- Top Enterprise, Business Development Gateway Association
- Top Enterprise of the Year of Construction and Development, Chamber of Trade and Industry of Khovd province
- Premier Organization Promotes social development, Social Standardization Foundation
- The best enterprise of the year Grand Prix award, CTI of Khovd province
- The best taxpayer of Khovd province
- International Standard Certification: Quality Management System
ISO 9001:2008, Occupational health and safety management system OHSAS 18001:2007
- Blue Book “Best Tax Payer” -The highest award of the Mongolian Tax Office
- Outstanding company of 2012 – Award of Mongolian Association of Road Builders
- Certificate of International Standards: Quality Management System ISO 9001:2008, Occupational Safety and Health Management System OHSAS 18001:2007
2021 OHS ISO 45001; 2018 international standard was introduced
Industrial Powerful Base
Today, the company has 3 asphalt concrete factories equipped with Russian Federation and Chinese Republic technologies, with more than 200 high-capacity machinery or the capacity to produce 260,000 tons of asphalt concrete mixture, and to construct 200 km of paved road and 400 l/m of reinforced concrete bridges and pipelines and 2000 to 3500 tons of metal products per year.
It has 3-set crusher equipment with a capacity of crushing 80 cubic meters of stone per hour, and a Rubble Master mobile crusher with a capacity of crushing 120 m3 of stone per hour, and 4 types of stones with a size of 0-40 mm are crushed in accordance with the standards and applied for our production. The road construction works are constantly monitored and analyzed, and there is a fully equipped field laboratory dedicated to all types of soil and asphalt mixture analysis.
Types of products and material, activities
which are able to be provided by our company
- Construction of paved road
- Construction of gravel roads
- Construction of all types of bridges, tunnels and flood protection dams
- Production of materials and structures for road construction and maintenance
- All types of roads, bridges, tunnels, underpasses and maintenance work of road structures
- Construction and maintenance of roads
- Road equipment, signs and marking works
- Excavation work
- Coal mining
- Customs loading and unloading
- Concentration production
- Customs covering and sealing
- Screening and loading of local coal
- Re-transport work
Road construction
Currently the company is in charge of maintenance of 311-km paved road and 18-meter 17 bridges from Khushuut mine in Darvi soum, Khovd province to Yarant port in Bulgan soum.
Khushuut Project
Since 2014, Altai zam JSC has been successfully working on the Khushuut project by signing a contract with MoEnCo LLC for “coal extraction and soil stripping in the Khushuut mine of Khovd province”. The following works are being carried out within the Khushuut project.
Soil stripping
Since 2017, heavy mining machinery have been invested every year, and as of today, it has the capacity to perform 11.5 million m3 of soil stripping work.
Coal mining
As of today, it is working with the capacity of excavating 6.7 million tons of coal per year.
Dry concentrator operation
It has the capacity to produce 7.2 million tons of dry concentrate per year.
Loading and sealing of coal for export
In terms of customs shipments, 7.2 million tons are shipped annually. 7.2 million tons of coal are covered and sealed after being loaded into trucks.
Locality and intensity of coal loading and screening
We are carrying out all the local coal screening and loading work.
Mining gas station
By building and operating a gas station with a capacity of 100 tons inside the mine, we can directly receive yield from outside, get fuel for wheeled vehicles without delay, and operate the mine without interruption caused by fuel. Moreover, fuel trucks have the advantage of not having to leave the mining area for yield.
Achievements in 2022
In 2022, the number of our employees increased by 180 employees, Altai zam JSC had the largest number of employees, i.e. 553 employees, and collected MNT 1.6 billion in health and social insurance premiums and MNT 17.8 billion in taxes to the state budget.
Also, OHS ISO45001:2018 standard was introduced in operations and successfully passed the 2nd audit of the certification of this standard in 2022.
A 1,500m2 camping building is being built and put into use for mine workers for 1.6 billion MNT.
In addition to commissioning a 50-meter deep well in the mining camp, 2 portable gas stations were also established.
The equipment pool has been updated with the latest equipment: 11 dump trucks of TONLY, 1 excavator of CAT395, 4 vehicles of LAND 76, Land 78, Land 79, 2 passenger cars of HIACE for employee service and 1 fuel truck of HYUNDAI.
In 2022, a total of 1,590,178 m3 of coal mining and 10,455,243 m3 of soil stripping were carried out, and coal extraction has doubled or increased by 96 percent, and soil stripping has increased by 61 percent.