Metso Minerals Opens Research Center in Finland

Metso Minerals has opened a new research center in Tampere, Finland.

Activity at the new center will further strengthen Metso’s global knowledge base in crushing and screening technology. The center will also offer research and testing services for the global construction and mining markets.

Located in southern Finland, the new center includes a test facility with a fully-equipped rock laboratory for analyzing rock samples. Testing routines will enable Metso Minerals to design crushing and screening processes that are a match for customer needs in terms of process capacity, energy efficiency, end-product characteristics and yield. As well as enhancing Metso Minerals’ research and development activities, the new center will also shorten new-product development lead-times.

First announced in 2006 as part of a larger expansion plan, the Metso Minerals Research Center will eventually employ 20 people. The driver behind these investments is strong global demand for efficient and environmentally sound crushing and screening solutions and the overall level of activity in the construction and mining markets.

The new Research Center represents an investment of 3 million euros and is the largest single investment that Metso Minerals has made in research and development to date.

More information is available at www.metsominerals.com.