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25th January 2021

Hindustan Zinc’s Rampura Agucha Mine wins Platinum at the International Convention on Quality Control Circles

Udaipur, 25th January 2021: Hindustan Zinc’s Rampura Agucha Mine has won ‘Platinum’ award at the 45th International Convention on Quality Control Circles organized by Quality Circle Forum of India (QCFI). Team ‘Fourth Wave’ – consisting of members Mr. Sourav Debnath, Ms. Nidhi Aggarwal and Mr. Abhishek Singh represented Rampura Agucha Mine at the international convention with their case study titled “Upgrading Line of Sight to Tele-remote production bogging and won the highest award of the convention.

Apart from the top accolade at ICQCC, four teams from the Agucha SBU had also participated in 34th National Convention on Quality Concepts (NCQC) – 2020 organized by Quality Circle Forum of India (QCFI) and won multiple awards. The teamsCooling Crackers & Kayad Haulers bagged “Par excellence award”, Team – Change Movers bagged “Excellence award”; while Team – Ramas bagged “Distinguish Award” in the convention. With these recognitions, teams Cooling Crackers, Kayad Haulers and Change Movers have now qualified for the ICQCC to be held in October 2021.

Hindustan Zinc lays great emphasis on quality circles to foster a culture of innovation and high performance. The quality circles help achieve and maintain quality standards, while also delivering business targets, strengthening reliabilities of asset and contributing towards sustainable growth.

Earlier, Hindustan Zinc’s Pantnagar Metal Plant had won “Par Excellence Award” and “Excellence Award” at 34th National Convention on Quality Concepts Awards 2020, who’ve also qualified for the ICQCC to be held in October 2021.

About Hindustan Zinc Limited

Hindustan Zinc, a Vedanta Group company in Zinc-Lead and Silver business is world’s 2nd largest integrated Zinc producer and 5th largest Silver producer. The company governs about ~80% of the growing Zinc market in India with its headquarters at Udaipur along with Zinc-Lead mines and smelting complexes spread across the state of Rajasthan.

Hindustan Zinc is self-sufficient in power with captive thermal power plants and has ventured into green energy by setting-up wind power plants. The company ranked highest in the S&P Global Corporate Sustainability Assessment in 2023 amongst Metals & Mining companies reflecting & reaffirming its constant commitment towards sustainable and responsible mining practices. Hindustan Zinc is a certified Water Positive company and is the only Indian company to be recognized at the S&P Global Platts Metal Award 2022 winning two prestigious awards for ‘Industry Leadership Award – Base, Precious & Specialty Metals’ Award and ‘Corporate Social Responsibility’ Award. Hindustan Zinc is also the only Indian company in Mining sector with validated & approved SBTi targets in alignment with 1.5 °C target.

The company takes pride in having some of the best-in-class people practices and employee-centric initiatives, which have certified Hindustan Zinc as – ‘Great Place to Work 2023’, ‘Company with Great Managers 2022’ by People Business and the ‘People-first HR Excellence Award’.

As a socially responsible corporate, Hindustan Zinc has been relentlessly working towards transforming lives of 1.7 million people in 237 villages in the states of Rajasthan and Uttarakhand with a spend base of INR 276.3 crores in FY23 for various community development initiatives and is amongst the Top 10 CSR Companies in India.

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