Normet Scores Big Equipment Order from MMC Norilsk


Normet will deliver more than 60 separate items of mining equipment to MMC Norilsk as part of a single contract
valued at more than €20-million. Above: the company’s Spraymec 1050 WPC electro-hydraulic shotcrete sprayer.
Finnish mining and tunnel equipment manufacturer Normet Group recently reported that it had been awarded the largest deal in its corporate history, a €20- million-plus equipment sale to Russian mining company MMC Norilsk Nickel.

The transaction, according to Normet, includes more than 60 mining vehicles for concrete spraying, rock removal, charging, personnel and explosives transport, various installation tasks applications, material transport and fire protection. The equipment will be delivered during the rest of this year and early 2009 to seven mines operated by Norilsk Nickel, situated on the Taimyr Peninsula in the northern part of West Siberia. Norilsk Nickel also has production plants in the Murmansk region on the Kola Peninsula.

The two companies established a cooperative equipment delivery relationship in the early 1990s, according to Normet.

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