Metso is a Finnish mining and aggregates technology group, one of the world’s leading suppliers of crushing, screening and minerals-processing equipment. It serves Portugal through Metso Portugal Lda in Amadora, and was the key equipment supplier for the upgraded copper-zinc concentrator at Almina’s Aljustrel mine in the Iberian Pyrite Belt.
Metso supplies crushing, screening, grinding and minerals-processing equipment and services to the mining and aggregates industries worldwide from its Finnish headquarters. In Portugal it operates through Metso Portugal Lda, based in Amadora in the Lisbon area, backed by a parts and technical-support network across the country. Its equipment has worked Almina’s Aljustrel operations in the Alentejo since at least 2014.
The flagship Portuguese reference is Almina’s upgraded copper-zinc concentrator at Aljustrel, in the Iberian Pyrite Belt: Almina placed the order with Metso as key equipment supplier in the first quarter of 2023, covering the grinding island, ultrafine grinding technology, flotation, filtration and thickening equipment, and all slurry pumps. Plant equipment deliveries ran from around mid-2024, with commissioning targeted around the first quarter of 2025 — Finnish process technology at the heart of one of Portugal’s two flagship pyrite-belt mining districts.
Alongside Sweden’s Sandvik, Epiroc and Boliden, Metso completes the Nordic equipment ecosystem around Portugal’s mining revival: where the Swedish groups dominate underground equipment and mine ownership, Finland’s Metso owns the processing plant. The Almina concentrator shows Nordic suppliers competing — and winning — across the whole Portuguese mining value chain.
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