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This year Metso celebrate
150 years in the industry.
Established in 1868 as a Swedish
ironworks, the company has
evolved through a series of
mergers, acquisitions and
divestments, and today operates
in more than 50 countries and
has over 12 000 employees.
With its headquarters in
Tampere, Finland, the company
is now a global industrial
business providing the world’s
mining, aggregates, recycling
and process industries with
innovative solutions for the
sustainable processing and flow
of natural resources.
During its 150-year history,
Metso has been involved in
many businesses ranging from
steam engines, locomotives,
car manufacturing, forestry
machines and pulp and paper
machines, to valves, metal and
waste recycling equipment and
solutions for rock and mineral
crushing and screening. Today,
one of Metso’s core areas of
expertise is aggregates and
minerals processing.
The first innovations that
kicked off mechanical crushing
and screening processes in
mines and quarries were
introduced during the late
1800s. The company was first
established in 1868 when
Erik Jan Hammarberg set up
the Sunds Bruk ironworks
in Sweden. In 1886, Bruno
Nordberg, a Finnish migrant
settled in Michigan in the US
and produced some of the first
crushing equipment for mines.
In 1895, Bergeaud & Bruno was
established in Mâcon, France,
to manufacture single-toggle
crushing equipment.
In 1928, Nordberg acquired
the Symons cone crusher
technology, an innovation that
was to revolutionise crushing
practices in mines and quarries,
while in Tampere, Finland,
Lokomo began producing
its first jaw crushers at the
beginning of the 1920s. These
industry pioneers all became
key components of Metso’s
DNA. As the business developed
its products and services
widened and its ownership
changed. In 1991, the operations
become part of Rauma-Repola.
Rauma then merged with
Valmet in 1999 to form Metso.
The amalgamation of Svedala
Industri AB into Metso in
2001 and the introduction
of solutions such as primary
gyratory crushers, grinding
Metso celebrates 150th anniversary
Metso celebrates 150 years.
mills and vertical-shaft
impactors was a key element
in the creation of a full-scope
offering for crushing and
screening. Key parts of Metso’s
development in this area include
the creation of the Nordberg
Manufacturing Company in
1886 by Bruno Nordberg. Each
of these companies and their
products continue today as
products offered by Metso.
Some of the most recent
Metso developments include
innovations such as Life Cycle
Services, energy-efficient
HRC high-pressure grinding
technology, Megaliner mill
linings, the MX Multi-Action
cone crusher and Lokotrack
Urban jaw crushing plants.
After a century and a half of
helping to shape and build the
modern world, digitalisation,
sustainability and energy
efficiency are some of the focus
areas in Metso’s current research
and development projects. One
example is the Metso Metrics
concept, which consists of a
cloud-based, remote-monitoring
and data-visualisation service
for mobile crushing plants. This
will soon be introduced to the
company’s mining and recycling
processes too.
To mark its 150th anniversary
Metso hosted a photo exhibition
in September in Finland to
illustrate how the company has
shaped and built the modern
world.
US commences tariffs on Chinese
cement products
The Office of the US
Trade Representative has
implemented a 10% tariff on
mineral and other products
from China, including cement,
following a consultation period. • aluminous
Mineral products affected by
the tariffs include: • aluminous cement
• slag
• supersulphate and similar
hydraulic cements
• white Portland cement
• Portland cement
• limestone flux • refractory cements
• quicklime • additives for cement
• slaked lime • cement-based building
materials
• gypsum
• anhydrite
• clinkers of Portland
10_QUARRY SA| NOVEMBER/DECEMBER 2018
The latest tariff list follows
an earlier decision by the US
• slag cement
US imposes tariffs on Chinese imports.
government to tax imports
from China worth
USD34-billion that came into
force in early July 2018.