UMCIL
Universal Mining & Chemical Industries Ltd (UMCIL) is a wholly Zambian owned company, first registered in Zambia in 1989, commissioned in 2008 and a subsidiary company under the distinct umbrella of the Trade Kings Group of companies. Re-visiting the past Zambian Government attempts and took up the challenge of turning the national strategy for development into a reality. UMCIL dedicates itself to the promotion, development, use and value addition to Zambian domestic raw materials as well as the adoption of best practices from mine to market with due care to environmental and social sustainability. This project signifies a step towards promoting, developing and adding value to abundant and yet unexploited domestic raw materials which Zambia possesses, a key element in the country's strategy towards sustainable wealth creation and socio-economic development.
Our current and immediate project portfolio is the manufacture of Iron and Steel Products from Zambian Iron Ore, Manganese Ore and Coal in an integrated, sustainable and environmentally friendly manner for use in building and construction, infrastructure development, manufacturing and engineering, mining and agriculture. Its Integrated iron and steel manufacturing facility is located in Kafue town, Zambia.
Presently, UMCIL is manufacturing both 100 x 100 / 130 x 130 mm billets. These are rolled into the following profiles that are mainly consumed in the building and construction industries: Deformed Bars, Rounded Bars, Angle Iron, Channels, Window Section and Flat Bars. The Wire / Rod Sections and Windows Sections Mills are located on the making site.
At the core of our business, we believe in providing reliability. As such, whoever uses UMCIL steel and steel products has the confidence that UMCIL steel goods will not fail. It is this guiding principle that governs all aspects of our business, from quality assurance to technology and investment.
We understand that consistent quality finished steel is vital to ensuring our customers’ processes operate efficiently and produce the high-performance products that our operating markets demand. We work closely with our customers to assess their requirements and continuously enhance our manufacturing processes to provide them with the optimum product to meet their needs. We are constantly expanding our range of sizes and chemistries to meet the ever more demanding criteria from our customers.
By extension of reliability, quality assurance and rigorous testing are of paramount importance. Our products meet the required standards for the most arduous and safety-critical applications. Quality is the epicenter of our business, as such the quality of our products is assured by our comprehensive testing procedures conducted in well-equipped laboratories to verify the stringent criteria for segregation, steel cleanness, scale, surface quality, chemical composition, size, shape and tensile strength properties.
At UMCIL we are proud to be associated with the highest standards of quality, recognized by both Zambia Bureau of Standards and the South Africa Bureau of Standards and is accredited to ISO 9001:2008 quality management system as well as ISO 14001:2004 for our environmental management system.
In sub-Saharan Africa, UMCIL is one of the largest steel producers. But it’s not just our size but our approach to business that sets us apart. You’ll enjoy the same local service wherever you are in the sub-Saharan African region, thanks to our extensive distribution network. This enables us to provide the responsive service of a local customer combined with the resources and expertise of a market leader. With coverage across all COMESA countries Burundi, Comoros, D.R. Congo, Djibouti, Egypt, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Kenya, Libya, Madagascar, Malawi, Mauritius, Rwanda, Seychelles, Sudan, Swaziland, Uganda, Zambia and Zimbabwe.