Few days ago, a good news from Warom Foreign Trade Center: the company has completed the 100% high-quality performance of the explosion-proof equipment order for the Dangote Oil Refinery Project in Nigeria in the West African market along the “Belt and Road”, and the contract payment for the project has been nearly 15 million US dollars in full back to the cage. This is the largest contract value export project signed by Warom overseas market in recent years, and it is also the world's largest single projects supply order for explosion-proof electrical appliance.
Nigeria is Africa's largest economy, largest population and largest crude oil exporter. It is also an important partner of China-Africa joint construction of "The Belt and Road". DPRP (Dangote Project) is an oil refinery project of the Dangote Group under Mr. Dangote, the richest man in Africa. It is located in the Lekki Free Trade Zone, a modern Lingang New City in Nigeria, with a total investment of 19 billion US dollars. It will be built into a comprehensive complex about the largest single-line processing capacity of the world Refining plant. The project is scheduled to be officially put into operation in 2023, and Warom will continue to provide it with after-sales service and technical support to ensure the safe operation of the refinery.
In recent years, Warom has taken the national “One Belt and Road” construction as an opportunity, actively “goes out and invites in”, deeply implemented the globalization strategy, showing its talents in the international market.
Africa has always been an important market for Warom along the "One Belt and Road". We have frequently participated in top professional exhibitions to show Warom's brand image to overseas users. In June 2018, the company received an invitation to bid for the Dangote project in Nigeria. Our foreign trade center immediately selected excellent staff to set up a bidding project team, communicated and negotiated with customers for many times, and actively organized project planning, through the unremitting efforts of our foreign trade marketing team, and relying on Warom's excellent technical advantages, strong manufacturing strength and high-quality product quality, we successfully defeated many competitors and won the bid at the end of 2018.
As a big country in West Africa, Nigeria has a rapid economic development and intense competition in the domestic market, the requirements for product quality and construction period are extremely strict, and it also puts forward high requirements for after-sales service. Through the sales team's efforts and relying on the excellent technical advantages, strong manufacturing strength and high-quality product quality, Warom finally won the bid at the end of 2018.
In February 2019, Warom held the KOM meeting successfully with the owner (Dangote Group) and the design unit (EIL in India), the contract performance had officially begun with this. We fully take into account of the high-standard product use requirements on the project site, we finally obtained the approval of owner and the design unit with the optimal product technical solution after repeated discussions with them.
After the design scheme is determined, Warom starts the comprehensive production of explosion-proof and weather-proof products required by the project. We are producing in the face of COVID-19, uses the "Intelligent Collaborative Management Platform" to strengthen the interconnection between production execution and product data. Finally we send out the last 9 containers in 8th of Apr. at the time of epidemic broke out and the region remained silent in Shanghai.
After Warom products arrived at the project site one after another, our technical always stand by for conducted product installation guidance and exchanges with the project construction party (CNCEC) through video conferences, remote assistance and other methods. Now all batches of explosion-proof and weather-proof electrical appliances of us have passed the on-site functional test and have been put into daily use. Warom's product quality and technical services have been highly recognized by customers.
The Dangote Oil Refinery Project in Nigeria has provided Warom with rich experience in the "The Belt and Road" and even the global market. In the future, Warom will continue to lead the industry to build a top Chinese explosion-proof brand with international influence, and be the most reliable security system service provider of hazardous environment.
