British firm completes coke battery project

BRITISH-BASED natural resources firm, Contango Holdings PLC (CHP) has announced the completion of its first small-scale coke battery at the Lubu coal project in Hwange.

To facilitate testing by potential offtake partners and for the company’s internal investigations and quality control, the pilot coke plant has been built on-site to create coke from washed coking coal generated at Lubu.

It is expected that the ultimate coke batteries will be of a significantly greater size and different specification.

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