Metso Unveils Advanced Fluid Bed Roaster for Enhanced Efficiency and Performance

Metso Unveils Advanced Fluid Bed Roaster for Enhanced Efficiency and Performance

(IN BRIEF) Metso has launched the Next Generation Fluid Bed Roaster, featuring enhanced components and advanced digital tools to improve roasting plant performance. The upgraded roaster increases plant safety, stability, and operational efficiency while enabling the use of previously unsuitable materials, such as fine concentrates and by-products. With higher feed rates, efficient heat recovery, and improved design, the roaster enhances plant availability and reduces costs. Part of the Metso Plus offering, this innovation builds on decades of experience in pyrometallurgical technologies to meet modern industry demands.

(PRESS RELEASE) ESPOO, 28-Nov-2024 — /EuropaWire/ — Metso has introduced its Next Generation Fluid Bed Roaster, an innovative solution designed to elevate roasting plant performance by integrating advanced engineering with cutting-edge digital tools. Building on features implemented in recent projects worldwide, the upgraded roaster enhances process control, safety, and operational efficiency while meeting modern industry demands.

Revolutionizing Roasting Technology

The Next Generation Fluid Bed Roaster features improved components and enhanced digital solutions, offering unparalleled adaptability to operational changes. Jörg Hammerschmidt, Director of Fluid Bed Technology at Metso, emphasized the significance of the launch:
“This new roaster is a natural evolution in today’s digital landscape, combining state-of-the-art equipment with advanced digital tools to improve safety, availability, and production KPIs. Its flexible design ensures stability while adapting to changing operational needs.”

Key Advantages

Metso’s Next Generation Fluid Bed Roaster delivers several benefits, including:

• Expanded Feed Capabilities: Materials previously unsuitable for roasting, such as fine concentrates, by-products, and residues with low-melting impurities, can now be incorporated after pre-treatment.
• Enhanced Operational Efficiency: The roaster ensures safer operations, greater stability, and reduced costs.
• Improved Plant Availability: Upgrades in design and technical logic increase uptime for roasting areas and downstream systems, including gas cleaning and sulfuric acid plants.
• Optimized Process Performance: With higher feed rates and efficient heat recovery, the system ensures superior performance metrics.

Decades of Expertise in Roasting Solutions

As a leader in pyrometallurgical technologies, Metso draws on decades of experience in processing concentrates and ores. Fluid bed roasting remains a cornerstone of Metso’s offerings, capable of handling a wide range of materials. The new roaster is part of the Metso Plus suite, which delivers advanced solutions to meet the evolving needs of the industry.

For more details about the Next Generation Fluid Bed Roaster and its transformative capabilities, visit Metso’s website.

Metso is a frontrunner in sustainable technologies, end-to-end solutions and services for the aggregates, minerals processing and metals refining industries globally. We improve our customers’ energy and water efficiency, increase their productivity, and reduce environmental risks with our product and service expertise. We are the partner for positive change.

Headquartered in Espoo, Finland, Metso employs over 17,000 people in close to 50 countries and sales for 2023 were about EUR 5.4 billion. The company is listed on the Nasdaq Helsinki. Metso.com, x.com/metsoofficial

Media Contacts:

Joerg Hammerschmidt
Director, Fluid Bed Technology, Metals and Chemical Processing, Metso
tel. +49 17 6889 063
email: joerg.hammerschmidt@metso.com

Helena Marjaranta
Vice President, Communications and Brand, Metso
tel. +358 20 484 3212
email: helena.marjaranta@metso.com

SOURCE: Metso