Metso’s 150th anniversary

Crushing equipment specialist Metso is now celebrating its 150th anniversary. The firm started in business in 1868 as a local ironworks and the firm has evolved through a series of mergers, acquisitions and divestments. It now has operations in more than 50 countries and a workforce of over 12,000. Metso is a global industrial company providing the world's mining, aggregates, recycling, and process industries with innovative solutions for the sustainable processing and flow of natural resources. During its
September 17, 2018 Read time: 2 mins
Crushing equipment specialist 6934 Metso is now celebrating its 150th anniversary. The firm started in business in 1868 as a local ironworks and the firm has evolved through a series of mergers, acquisitions and divestments. It now has operations in more than 50 countries and a workforce of over 12,000. Metso is a global industrial company providing the world's mining, aggregates, recycling, and process industries with innovative solutions for the sustainable processing and flow of natural resources.


During its 150 years, Metso has been in many businesses, ranging from steam engines, locomotives, car manufacturing, forest machines, and pulp and paper machines, to valves, metal and waste recycling equipment, and solutions for rock and mineral crushing and screening.  One of its core areas of expertise today is aggregates and minerals processing: key ingredients for the construction and manufacture of infrastructure.

The first innovations that kicked off mechanical crushing and screening processes in the mines and quarries were introduced in the 1800s. Bruno Nordberg, a Finnish migrant who settled in Michigan in the US, produced some of the first crushing equipment for mines. In 1928, Nordberg acquired the Symons cone crusher technology, an innovation that revolutionised crushing practices in mines and quarries. Bergeaud & Bruno was established in France in 1895 to manufacture crushing equipment, and in Tampere, Finland, Lokomo produced its first jaw crushers at the beginning of the 1920s. These industry pioneers are all key components of our DNA.

The amalgamation of Svedala Industri into Metso in 2001, and the introduction of solutions like primary gyratory crushers, grinding mills and vertical shaft impactors was elemental in the creation of its crushing and screening business.

As part of the celebration the firm is organising an exhibition of photographs showing its history.

Materials Finance & Funding

For more information on companies in this article

Related Content

  • McLanahan Corporation unveils new crushers
    January 28, 2014
    The challenges of today’s tough marketplace require producers to do more than ever before, says McLanahan Corporation while unveiling new products and showcasing its capabilities in dry and wet processing. It also premieres its “brand new capabilities in crushing” with two new product introductions. The first is a new cone crusher and the second is McLanahan’s re-invention of the single-toggle/overhead eccentric jaw crusher.
    Read More
  • McLanahan Corporation unveils new crushers
    January 6, 2017
    The challenges of today’s tough marketplace require producers to do more than ever before, says McLanahan Corporation while unveiling new products and showcasing its capabilities in dry and wet processing. It also premieres its “brand new capabilities in crushing” with two new product introductions. The first is a new cone crusher and the second is McLanahan’s re-invention of the single-toggle/overhead eccentric jaw crusher.
    Read More
  • UK’s First Powerscreen Premiertrak 600 Goes to WH Malcolm Group
    January 4, 2016
    Malcolm Construction Services has taken delivery of the UK’s first Powerscreen Premiertrak 600 mobile jaw crusher. The purchase was from appointed Powerscreen distributor Blue Machinery Scotland and is working alongside other Powerscreen crushing and screening equipment, processing quarried Basalt at Malcolm’s Loanhead Quarry, Bieth near Glasgow. Blue Machinery has also purchased a new 1150 Maxtrak cone crusher to achieve type 1 sizes for drainage and concrete aggregate. The quick and easy to assemble
    Read More
  • Going mobile in Mexico
    April 12, 2012
    Mexico-based Grupo Pinfra was one of the country's first aggregate producers to invest in mobile crushing and screening equipment. Twenty years on, the company is still confident that mobile equipment is key to meeting demand and has just expanded its fleet. In 1991, Pinfra took delivery of two Metso Minerals Lokotrack LT125 mobile crushers and these have now clocked up 30,000 working hours. Nonetheless, there is still plenty of life in these machines and while the newly acquired LT140 jaw crusher takes
    Read More

Highlighted Content