Metso Minerals to Supply Cone Crushers to World's Largest Diversified Resource Company
Metso Minerals will supply three cone crushers to BHP Billiton Iron Ore for its Newman Hub project in Western Australia. The delivery is scheduled for September 2008. The value of the order is approximately EUR 5 million.
The order includes three Nordberg MP800 cone crushers that are supplied with drive motors, bases and air-cooler chillers units. The chiller units are required due to the high temperatures experienced at the site. Installed power per machine is 600 kW. The order also includes commissioning assistance and spare parts.
The Newman Hub project is a new plant being built at an existing site. Primary crushed ore will be crushed by the three cone crushers in a closed circuit to produce annually 32 million tonnes of iron ore lump (32 mm x 6 mm) and fines (6 mm x 0 mm).
BHP Billiton Limited is the world's largest diversified resources company.
Metso Minerals is a global supplier of solutions, equipment and services for rock and minerals processing. Its expertise covers the production of aggregates, the processing of ores and industrial minerals, as well as construction and metal recycling. Metso Minerals is a business area of Metso Corporation, a global engineering and technology corporation with 2006 net sales of approximately EUR 5 billion. Its 26 000 employees in more than 50 countries serve customers in the pulp and paper industry, rock and minerals processing, the energy industry and selected other industries.
For further information for the press, please contact:
Ken Burson
Regional Product Manager - Crushing, Asia Pacific, Mining business line,
Metso Minerals
tel. + 61 8 9420 5878
Mark Glendenning,
Senior Vice President,
Asia-Pacific, Mining business line
Metso Minerals,
tel. + 61 8 9420 5566
