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Revision as of 09:47, 10 January 2011
Metso, METSO or metso may refer to:
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Company Info
Company type | Julkinen osakeyhtiö (Nasdaq Helsinki: MEO1V) |
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Industry | Industrial machinery |
Predecessor | Valmet and Rauma Oy |
Founded | 1999 |
Headquarters | , |
Key people | Jukka Viinanen (Chairman), Jorma Eloranta (President and CEO) |
Products | Machinery and services for mining, construction, energy, automation, recycling, pulp and paper industries |
Revenue | €5.016 billion (2009)[1] |
€294 million (2009)[1] | |
€150 million (2009)[1] | |
Number of employees | 27,170 (2009)[1] |
Website | www.metso.com |
Metso Corporation (Nasdaq Helsinki: MEO1V) was created in 1999 through the merger of Valmet and Rauma and is headquartered in Helsinki, Finland. Metso is a global supplier of process industry machinery and systems as well as know-how and aftermarket services. It serves the pulp and paper industry, rock and mineral processing, power, panelboard production and the hydrocarbon and process industries.
Metso consists of three business areas: Paper processing & production, Minerals processing, and Automation.
Paper processing and production
Metso Paper is a global supplier of pulpmaking, papermaking, boardmaking and tissuemaking lines, covering all the processes from pulp making to the wrapping of finished rolls. This covers the full range of paper products. They have supplied over 1,500 paper machines and equipment for 800 pulping lines to customers worldwide. Approximately one third of the global paper production is performed on production systems supplied by Metso Paper and its predecessors (eg. Valmet, Ahlström, Beloit, Wärtsilä, KMW, Sunds Defibrator).[citation needed]
In 2006 Metso Paper's net sales were EUR 2,925 million. Today, it has a personnel of 11,700. The company's largest market areas are Europe, Asia and North America.[citation needed]
Power Products division
Power's products division operates as part of the Metso Paper and supply fluidized bed boilers and recovery boilers, evaporators, environmental systems and service.
Minerals division
Metso Minerals supplies rock and minerals processing systems to its customers in mining, aggregates production, quarrying and construction. Metso’s Process Technology Center in Colorado Springs, Colorado, USA, is developing virtual machines based on sophisticated multi-physics models. The use of this technology is rare within the mining industry, making Metso the leader in simulating these complex problems.[2]
Automation division
Metso Automation is a global supplier of machine and process automation for the pulp and paper industry, rock and minerals processing and the power and process industries.
Metso has the industry widest automation offering to pulp and paper industy covering applications and services ranging from specialty analyzers, automated laboratories, control and on/off valves to system for process control & information management, machine control, drive control and quality control with profilers.
Materials Technology division
Metso Materials Technology supplies and develops metallic materials for different industries.[3] Metso Materials Technology has also contributed to both the CERN LHC[4] and ITER[5] projects.
References
- ^ a b c d "Annual Report 2009" (PDF). Metso. Retrieved 2010-03-30.
- ^ "High-tech modeling contributes to more sustainable mining machines". Retrieved 2010-12-28.
- ^ "Metso Materials Technology Website". Metso. Retrieved 2009-07-08.
- ^ "Metso Materials Technology and CERN LHC". Metso. Retrieved 2009-07-08.
- ^ "Metso Materials Technology and ITER". Metso. Retrieved 2009-07-08.