Timber Projects
In the nearly 20 years since its development, the Signam Group's business sectors have continued to expand. The company's annual logging volume in Africa surpasses 300,000 cubic meters, making it one of the largest importers of African tropical timber in China. Signam Group owns a total of 2.5 million hectares of primary forests in several African countries. To comprehensively expand the timber trade and create an industry-leading position, Signam Group exports a significant quantity of engineering machinery and equipment to well-known domestic enterprises and has formed a professional timber transportation team abroad, achieving seamless integration of the entire industry chain from logging to land transportation, river transportation and sea transportation. In 2018, the group's annual logging volume reached 500,000 cubic meters, with an annual output value of 300 million US dollars. While developing its core timber business, the Signam Group is also actively exploring other sustainable development paths.
Construction Projects
For a long time, under the guidance of China's Going Global Initiative, the Signam Group has seized opportunities and is one of the first Chinese enterprises to enter the international engineering contracting market and achieve outstanding results. The Group engages in engineering contracting, investment, development, and operation services in fields such as roads, bridges, ports, railways, and real estate, undertaking infrastructure construction in several Southeast Asian countries through various methods. With the support of China's Belt and Road policy, Yunnan province has increasingly close trade relations with neighboring Southeast Asian countries such as Thailand, Myanmar, and Laos.
At present, the Signam Group has established more than 15 permanent overseas institutions and has over 1,000 domestic and foreign employees. It has entered more than 20 countries, including Thailand, Laos, Vietnam, Sri Lanka, and Cambodia, constructing and investing in more than 200 international engineering projects. The Group's cumulative overseas operating income has reached over 3 billion US dollars, with a planned total overseas investment of more than 4 billion US dollars and ongoing project investments exceeding 500 million US dollars.
Agriculture Projects
In 2018, the Signam Group invested approximately $70 million in discretionary financing for the 20,000-hectare soybean project in Cascavel, Brazil, to ensure the project's on-time execution. The project is still ongoing, and the financing for the required operating capital is still in progress.
New Energy Projects
In recent years, the Signam Group has been committed to investing in green and renewable new energy sources. By the end of 2021, the Signam Group had invested in and held a total grid-connected installed capacity of 4.633 million kilowatts, including 1.2547 million kilowatts of thermal power, 779,600 kilowatts of hydropower, 1.4215 million kilowatts of wind power, 953,000 kilowatts of solar power, and 224,000 kilowatts of biomass power. In the future, the Signam Group will continue to invest in and develop low-carbon energy and power businesses, comprehensively enter new energy and energy storage industries, including increasing the development of new energy "investment-construction-operation integration" projects and developing multi-energy complementarity and integrated source-grid-load-storage projects.
