Inner Mongolia North Heavy Industries Group won a key contract to supply pipeline to the Hwange Thermal Power Station in the southern African nation of Zimbabwe, with the agreement signed recently, according to a report in the Baotou Daily.

The contract marked the seventh international supply order secured by the Baotou-based company in 2019 and the cumulative amount of its orders in overseas markets for the year topped 200 million yuan ($29.06 million).

Established in 1954, Inner Mongolia North Heavy Industries Group is one of 156 national key businesses established during the first Five-Year Plan period (1953-1957).

The company is engaged in special steel smelting, extrusions, casting, forging and machinery. It operates in an area measuring 350 square kilometers and has total assets of 15.3 billion yuan.

The group currently employs more than 15,000 people and operates 9,300 pieces of equipment and devices, with gross annual revenues of more than 10 billion yuan.

The main businesses of the company include manufacturing weapons and equipment, specialty steel and augmented products, as well as mining trucks and engineering machinery.

Pipeline is moved at a workshop of Inner Mongolia North Heavy Industries Group located in Baotou, in North China’s Inner Mongolia autonomous region. [Photo/Baotou Daily]