efficiency of water use through the reduction of the amount of freshwater needed in Metso’s operations and through increased
recycling and the safe re-use of water.
Metso provides employment opportunities for individuals of all genders, all ages as well as for people with disabilities, and has
standard employment practices in all locations. Furthermore, Metso is committed to achieving equal pay for work of equal
value, safeguarding labor rights, and promoting a safe and secure working environment for all employees (SDG 8).
A significant portion of Metso’s manufacturing is outsourced, emphasizing the importance of responsible procurement
practices. By advocating sustainable practices across the supply chain, Metso also promotes the wider adoption of
responsible management practices and the reduction of waste generation (SDG 12).
Climate change, urbanization, electrification and infrastructure investments continue to drive long-term commodity demand.
Despite continued geopolitical and economic uncertainty, the market fundamentals in Metso’s customer industries present
growth opportunities. Sustainability offers further opportunities within Metso’s current and extended product portfolio. Raw
material availability and costs increase the need for sustainable and circular solutions. Within this broad context, Metso’s
Minerals and Aggregates reporting segments have clear strategic priorities aimed at further improving financial and
sustainability performance. Metso is well-positioned in the fastest growing metals and critical minerals, such as nickel, copper
lithium, zinc and manganese, with a comprehensive equipment and aftermarket offering and strong capabilities in full
flowsheet offering.
In Minerals, the focus is on technology leadership in processing and smelting, especially through Metso’s sustainable
equipment and aftermarket offering – Metso Plus. Metso serves a diverse range of mining customers, including large global
miners, major and mid-sized regional operators, and junior miners. Metso’s offering and process expertise cover the entire
end-to-end mining process – from professional testing and piloting to early project support, to solutions across the flowsheet,
including crushing and grinding, separation and filtration solutions, and advanced tailings management. Additionally, Metso’s
minerals offering includes material handling equipment and slurry pumps as well as an extensive selection of spare and wear
parts and services.
Metso also provides comprehensive solutions and services for maintaining and optimizing processes and equipment
performance with advanced digital solutions, intelligent automation and control systems. In the rapidly growing battery
industry, Metso is well positioned to offer sustainable technology and equipment, covering e.g. lithium and nickel production,
with project scopes ranging from equipment packages to plant deliveries and from mine to battery materials, as well as black
mass recycling.
For metals refining customers, Metso offers a comprehensive portfolio of modern smelting solutions for the treatment of
primary and secondary raw materials. For example, the Metso Plus flash smelting process is currently the most widely used
copper smelting method globally, resulting in high metal recovery with the lowest total cost of ownership.
In the Aggregates segment, Metso serves large international companies and numerous smaller, more regional or local
customers running quarry operations or operating as contractors. Metso’s offering for aggregates customers includes
crushers, screens, feeders, fixed and mobile crushing and screening plants, track-mounted equipment, spare and wear parts,
and a wide array of services. Research and development activities concentrate on crushing technology, electrification of
aggregates production, and environmental performance. A significant share of sales in the Aggregates business is carried out
by distributors. The management and development of the global distributor network is the responsibility of a separate
distribution management organization (DMO). The Aggregates business consists of products sold under the Metso brand, and
an additional product offering sold under the Diamond Z, Jonsson, Lippman, McCloskey, McCloskey Environmental, MWS
Equipment, Screen Machine Industries, Shaorui, Tedd Engineering and Tesab brands.
Metso places strong emphasis on the aftermarket and services, with a focus on customer experience and new digital
capabilities to support both organic and inorganic growth. Key growth areas include products with high aftermarket potential,
sustainable Metso Plus offering, automation and digitalization. These are built on extensive expertise and the reliability of
Metso’s products with additional gains from synergies across this broad portfolio of services. Across its customers' industries
there is a large installed base of Metso equipment, and by offering new digital services, Metso can even better serve the
customers and offer new efficiency solutions for the existing installed base. Metso’s strategy leverages its aftermarket capacity
to offset the inherent cyclicality of its customer industries and expansion into third-party installed bases.
Metso has differentiated sustainability-related goals for its business and market areas, taking into account the growth potential
and possible risks to the business. Specific goals within each area contribute to achieving group-level objectives. Safety
targets are established globally, serving as common benchmarks that guide the more detailed target-setting process within
each business area and market area. Targets are related to Key Performance Indicators, such as Lost Time Incident
Frequency and Total Recordable Injury Frequency. In addition, Metso sets targets related to specific initiatives, for example the
work done during 2023-2024 to analyze and address gaps in the Group’s safety management systems. Metso also sets
individual role-based targets, such as risk observation training and reporting targets for all employees without subordinates,
and safety conversation training and reporting targets for managers and supervisors with subordinates.
