:: Outokumpu Technology Wins Grinding Mill Contracts Worth EUR 30 Million

Outokumpu Technology has been awarded several new grinding mill contracts worth EUR 30 million from Sweden, Chile, South Africa and Australia.

The largest of these mill contracts was with LKAB Kiruna, a leading Swedish iron ore mining company investing in a new concentrator KA3 and a new pelletizing plant KK4, which is designed to produce 6 million tonnes of pellets per year. Outokumpu Technology’s delivery will consist of five grinding mills, a cooling system for mills, spiral classifiers, hydrocyclone clusters and two thickeners. Outokumpu Technology will also install all this equipment by mid 2007 and the plant is scheduled to start operation in early 2008.

Outokumpu Technology’s other new mill contracts include the delivery in the second quarter of 2007 of two ball mills and technical services for Compañía Minera del Pacífico’s Atama Iron Ore project in Chile, the delivery, installation and commissioning of a large ball mill for the Nkomati Nickel plant in South Africa, and the delivery of a second ball mill for OneSteel’s Project Magnet in Australia.