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Southern Peru Mining Cluster Rebranded to SAMMI-Andean Mining Cluster
This initiative will continue to be focused on promoting an ecosystem that fosters collaboration and articulation between mining companies and suppliers, academia and the state. It seeks to expand the initial borders for a national and international reach, with a view to transforming mining activity into a driver of development and prosperity for all Peruvians.
In order to expand the borders of the Southern Peru Mining Cluster, which promotes a mining ecosystem since 2019 with great development potential for the entire country and the region, it is being branded to SAMMI-Andean Mining Cluster.
This will allow new partners to join the initiative, in addition to the companies that have been with us since the beginning: Hudbay Minerals, Anglo American, Southern Copper Corporation and Sociedad Minera Cerro Verde.
SAMMI – Andean Mining Cluster is an initiative promoted by CAF—development bank of Latin America—and the Arequipa Chamber of Commerce and Industry (CCIA), which aims to bring prosperity to the regions of influence of the mining sector, by developing an innovation and entrepreneurship ecosystem that promotes collaboration between mining companies, suppliers, academia and the state. It promotes articulation and collaboration between the main stakeholders of the regional and national ecosystem, to create shared value, develop suppliers with greater capacity for innovation, export, and boost competitiveness of the sector as a whole.
The strategic axes of SAMMI – Andean Mining Cluster include innovation, including notably the open innovation program, which has received 14 operational challenges from partner mining companies, and more than 100 proposals have been developed for solutions by domestic and foreign suppliers. These also include technological missions, including a delegation of representatives of mining companies and domestic suppliers, as well as authorities to Australia’s most prominent mining event: IMARC.
Other strategic axes of this initiative are competitiveness, acceleration of suppliers and sustainability, which includes the first characterization of mining suppliers in Peru; articulation of the network of regional chambers of commerce around mining; networking programs for suppliers with other mining ecosystems, and promoting green mining and reducing the industry’s carbon footprint.
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