Kopex looks set to purchase two mining companies

Katowice-based Kopex engineering has announced it is planning to buy two companies Przedsiębiorstwo Budowy Szybów, a mine construction company currently owned by NFI Jupiter investment fund as well as a maker of mining equipment Zamet SA. Publicly-traded Kopex said that the two will take part in contracts signed earlier this year in Iran and Serbia. Kopex also sells weapons and explosives as a side business to mine construction services, with revenues from that estimated at zł. 40 million. According to info rmation from Parkiet, Kopex is negotiating with a Canadian-Turkish con sortium over work in a Turkish copper and zinc mine. (Parkiet, p. 4) A.Z.