The new plant is being built by Swedish mining company Boliden and is a replacement for an existing facility, an upgrade that will double capacity from 1.3 to 2.5 million tonnes of metal ores per year.
Garpenberg is Sweden’s oldest mine and is still producing large quantities of zinc along with smaller amounts of lead and silver.
Weir Minerals will supply the majority of pumps for every application across the plant, requiring a wide range of types and sizes of units to handle the full spectrum of flow rates, pressure requirements and slurry consistencies.
Delivery of the units will begin immediately, but installation and commissioning work is scheduled to take place from spring to autumn 2013.
The contract follows the launch of Weir’s first service centre in Scandinavia in March this year, and its acquisition in 2012 of belt-tensioning system manufacturer GEMEX, both of which played a significant part in securing the order.
Tony G Locke, managing director of Weir Minerals Europe, said: “We have a long-standing relationship with Boliden and over the years have supplied equipment to their Atik and Tara sites as well as the company’s first location in Boliden itself.
“However, this is by far our biggest agreement to date and it is the result of the increase in the breadth of our offering and the depth of our customer service support in recent years.”
Weir Minerals Europe delivers end-to-end solutions for all mining, transportation, milling, processing and waste management processes across a range of industries and in over 30 different territories.
