Group Structure

Transaction and

Corporate Finance Advisory

  • Mergers & acquisitions advisory
  • Valuations and due diligence
  • Financial modelling and information memoranda
  • Balance sheet restructuring
  • Equity and debt capital raising

Capital Raising

(Medium to Long-Term)

  • Capital markets advisory
  • DFI funding
  • Concessional funding
  • Vanilla loans
  • Structured facilities
  • Access to private equity funding
  • Access to capital markets
  • Medium-term note programmes
  • Bond issuances
  • Equity raises and private placements
  • Investor roadshows

Project Finance

Advisory & FUND MANAGEMENT

  • Project development
  • Project structuring and packaging
  • Developing project documentation
  • Information memoranda
  • Financial modelling and other marketing documents
  • Identifying strategic equity and technical partners
  • Equity and debt capital raising
  • Acting as a general partner to manage third party funds by managing a portfolio of investments, growing and returning invested capital to investors

Unearthing Africa’s resources

Afris Mining Investments was established in 2013 as a mining investment holding company for proprietary investments in the resources sector. AMH has invested in a manganese mining, processing and exporting company, Kudumane Manganese Resources.

Exploration

Mining

Processing

Exporting

Fostering corporate entrepreneurship

Established to benefit from synergies between various companies within the Afris Group, Africa Rising Mining Services (AMS) provides technical services to mining companies, including Kudumane Manganese Resources (KMR).

Advisory on corporate

entrepreneurship initiatives

  • Processes re-engineering
  • Working capital management
  • Energy transition for sustainable development

Efficiency

improvements

  • Yellow equipment turnaround times
  • Diesel consumption
  • Optimising material hauling distances from the mining pit to material crushing sites and to waste dump areas

Procurement of service

providers such as for

  • Drilling
  • Blasting
  • Mining contracting
  • Crushing
  • Logistics for transporting material from mine to port, etc

Fuelling business growth

In 2020, the Africa Rising Group of Companies (Afris Group) established Africa Rising Petrochem (ARP), a petroleum trading associate company, and acquired a fuel wholesale trading license to harness synergies between ARP and AMH. This wholesaler’s License covers petroleum products such as aviation gasoline, biofuels, diesel, jet fuel, liquefied petroleum gas, paraffin, and petrol.

Petroleum products

for mining activities

ARP is the sole supplier of petroleum products to all the mining activities of KMR. ARP currently supplies more than 14 million litres of diesel per annum to KMR. ARP is also poised to supply petrochemical products to its other investee companies.

Improved

Technologies

ARP leverages AMS introduce our clients to technologies that assist them to optimise stock levels, reduce waste and be more efficient in their use and management of diesel and the other products we supply. We aim to be a successful and sustainable African petrochemical trading company that delivers superior value to its shareholders and other stakeholders.

Infrastructure

partnerships

In addition to supplying petroleum and chemical products to our clients, ARP collaborates with our suppliers and associated companies to build storage infrastructures for fuel and other feedstock to manage operational risks; and to foster new technologies geared at overcoming client challenges and enhancing profitability.

Driving explosive economic growth

In 2021, Afris Group, through its explosives investment holding associate company Africa Rising Explosives, partnered with Sasol South Africa and Enaex SA, a Chilean-based multinational conglomerate. The partnership saw Afris acquire a 26% interest in Enaex Africa (Pty) Ltd. Enaex’s turnover has grown by over 400% from 2021 to date.

Supplying

explosives

Enaex Africa produces and supplies a wide variety of explosives and value-added solutions for KMR and other mining companies, all the products to execute the entire blasting process, including several types of bulk emulsions, cartridge emulsions, boosters and conventional and electronic detonators, among other products.

Blasting

Service

Enaex Africa’s products are used in blasting for opencast and underground mining operations, quarries and civil construction.

Supplying

detonators

These products are used in blasting for opencast and underground mining operations, quarries and civil construction.