The contract encompasses a total comminution solution from process assistance to complete maintenance services which will also include grinding media.
The new agreement is an extension to an earlier services contact signed in 2011, making it the largest ever services agreement for Metso.
The value of this addition is over €140 million.
“This significant order with Russian Copper Company demonstrates our ability to make a true and sustainable difference to our customers' businesses. Metso is today a complete service provider and long-term service partnerships create value for both our customers and Metso. By adding grinding media to our services portfolio we can strengthen our position and offering to our customers even further,” says Andrew Benko, president, Mining and Construction, Metso.
“We have been working with Metso to build both of our copper mines Mikheevsky and Tominsky, and the cooperation has thus far proven to be very successful. They have helped us choose the correct equipment and they have the capability to help us optimise the comminution circuit and the best people available to support us. By this new contract we continue our effective cooperation with Metso,” says Vsevolod Levin, president of Russian Copper Company.
The life-cycle services contract between Metso and the Russian Copper Company includes grinding media together with the comminution circuit maintenance and operational services.
The services will be provided by approximately 85 operation and maintenance specialists and by Metso full dedicated product and process support team located at the Mikheevsky site and Metso's service hubs in Russia. Within this agreement Metso will also provide the initial fill grinding media, continuous supply inventory and application support for process optimisation.
Planning and development is well underway with start-up targeted in the last quarter of 2013, after which Metso will maintain and assist in the operation of RCC's comminution circuit for six and a half continuous years.
