Finland’s Metso says a €180 million order for process equipment and engineering services for an unnamed new primary copper smelter in Asia underscores the market’s appetite for “the world’s most widely applied” large-scale copper smelting technology.
The planned 300,000 tonnes per annum producer of copper cathodes and 1.1 million tonnes a year of sulphuric acid will use the highly energy-intensive Outotec copper flash smelting method.
Metso is supplying the flash smelter and key process equipment for the gas cleaning and sulphuric acid plant, copper electrolytic refinery and precious metals refinery. The delivery also comprises site services and spares.
