SAINTE-HÉLÈNE-DU-LAC, France,
Nov. 6, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- MND
Group (Euronext Growth: FR0011584549) (Euronext Growth:
ALMND), via its MND SNOW business line, world's second largest
player in the snowmaking market, has won, alongside its Chinese
partner Beijing Snow Elan, the international call for tenders to
design and build the entire snowmaking system for the Jinshanling
Golden Mountain ski resort. Located 120 km north-east of
Beijing on the edge of the Great
Wall of China, this new ski area
is being developed by Hebei Tourism Investment, the state-owned
company in charge of tourism development in the Olympic province of
Hebei. MND is currently building a
detachable gondola lift and a detachable chairlift for the same
resort.
A new snowmaking €4.8m contract for MND
Hebei Tourism Investment, in charge of promoting tourism in the
Hebei Olympic region, has ordered from MND SNOW, MND snowmaking
business line, and its Chinese partner Beijing Snow Elan, the
installation of a complete automated snowmaking solution comprising
120 fan guns and 3 pumping rooms. The total value of this project
amounted to €7.8m, of which €4.8m for MND Group. This multi-year
project, which will run until 2022, will begin this autumn with
engineering work phase.
The Hebei region is developing
strongly and is positioned as one of the most important skiing
destinations in China thanks to
its proximity to the capital Beijing, but also thanks to the Winter
Olympics of 2022. The Golden Mountain resort will be one of the
flagship destinations and will welcome Chinese tourists from the
Beijing-Tianjin-Chengde area, a
total population of almost 40 million people.
The recognized quality of the solutions offered by MND SNOW was
major to win this international call for tenders. Operational since
2017 in China, the French Group's
snowmakers have demonstrated their performance, reliability and
quality in the extreme conditions of the north of the country,
particularly in the pioneering resort of Wanlong, where MND
commissioned China's largest
automated snowmaking system in 2018.
MND and Hebei Tourism Investment have already been working
together for several years. MND is currently installing a gondola
lift and a detachable chairlift in the same ski area, following the
contract won in 2018 by its cable transport division, MND ROPEWAYS.
Hebei Tourism Investment thus renews its confidence in MND and will
thus benefit from the Group's global offer on the Golden Mountain
site.
Xavier Gallot-Lavallée, Chairman and CEO of MND
emphasises: "This contract is the fruit of the constant
mobilisation of our teams, and I would like to salute their work
during this unprecedented period that our companies have been
experiencing since the beginning of the year with COVID-19. Already
working on the cable transport project on this same site, we are
delighted to continue our collaboration with Hebei Tourism
Investment to contribute to the development of the Jinshanling
Golden Mountain ski area.
"Over the past months, MND has been awarded new orders, to be
carried out from 2020 to 2022, including cable transport projects
in urban and mountain areas, snowmaking projects in the Alps,
Japan and China, and services related to the safety of
ski areas in Europe, Central Asia and North America. The trust of our clients with
these new orders reinforces the group's global development plan,
built around the production of Made in France solutions on our regional territory in
Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes and exported to nearly 80% worldwide."
Energy optimisation and environmental integration
MND supports its clients and ski area operators in their efforts
to reduce their ecological footprint, in particular through
solutions to optimise the equipment installed. In particular, the
Group is the first manufacturer in the world to have integrated
into its snow production management software the functionality to
produce clean energy from snowmaking networks. At La Thuile in
Italy, MND continues to develop
its expertise in the field of hydroelectric production, where it
has been very successful. After the integration of two
hydroelectric turbines into the snowmaking network, the investment
has already paid off with electricity production 20% higher than
the snowmaking system's consumption.
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Contact:
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