Lubumbashi university scientific breakthrough
Kinsevere’s environmental monitoring samples will no longer have to leave the Congo for analysis. In fact a testing solution is within very close reach now that the University of Lubumbashi (UNILU) environmental analysis laboratory is the first in the Congo to receive certification, overseen by the Southern African Development Community Accreditation Service.
Patrick Nkulu, Kinsevere Deputy General Manager Operations and General Manager representative, attended the official accreditation certificate ceremony. He praised the local scientific community’s capabilities.
“This accreditation, of the now leading environmental analysis laboratory in the Congo, bolsters local and nearby expertise according to the standards of the ISO 17025 standard,” he said.
The University rector, Full Professor Gilbert Kishiba, said he was honoured to have an analytical laboratory that meets international standards.
“UNILU’s academics and scientists can now provide a proven service to the resources industry. The accreditation paves the way for signing other research contracts,” he said.
Kinsevere has invited other mining companies and Congo investors to also reach out to the University of Lubumbashi.
Jean Marie Kanda, Dean Polytechnics Faculty, presented prizes and medals to more than 30 new ambassadors of the Polytechnic, including Patrick Nkulu and Senior Mining Engineer Ursule Ntumba, who is Kinsevere’s first female mining engineer. Both Patrick and Ursule are UNILU graduates.
Other guests included the representative of the Minister of Higher and University Education, the Provincial Minister of Mines and the Commissioner for the Environment, eminent researchers, professors and mining companies operating in the in Haut-Katanga and Lualaba provinces.
