Metso Corporation was created in 1999 through the merger of Valmet

Valmet

' was a Finnish state-owned conglomerate. Valmet was formed in 1951, when the state of Finland decided to group their various factories working on war reparations to the Soviet Union under one company...

 and Rauma and is headquartered in Helsinki

Helsinki

Helsinki is the capital and largest city in Finland. It is in the region of Uusimaa, located in southern Finland, on the shore of the Gulf of Finland, an arm of the Baltic Sea. The population of the city of Helsinki is , making it by far the most populous municipality in Finland. Helsinki is...

, Finland

Finland

Finland , officially the Republic of Finland, is a Nordic country situated in the Fennoscandian region of Northern Europe. It is bordered by Sweden in the west, Norway in the north and Russia in the east, while Estonia lies to its south across the Gulf of Finland.Around 5.4 million people reside...

. Metso is a global supplier of process industry machinery and systems as well as know-how and aftermarket services. It serves the pulp and paper industry

Pulp and paper industry

The global pulp and paper industry is dominated by North American , northern European and East Asian countries...

, rock and mineral processing

Mining

Mining is the extraction of valuable minerals or other geological materials from the earth, from an ore body, vein or seam. The term also includes the removal of soil. Materials recovered by mining include base metals, precious metals, iron, uranium, coal, diamonds, limestone, oil shale, rock...

, power, panelboard

Fiberboard

Fiberboard is known as low density fiberboard is a type of engineered wood product that is made out of wood fibers. Types of fiberboard include particle board, medium-density fiberboard, and hardboard. Fiberboard is sometimes used as a synonym for particle board, but particle board usually refers...

 production and the hydrocarbon

Hydrocarbon

In organic chemistry, a hydrocarbon is an organic compound consisting entirely of hydrogen and carbon. Hydrocarbons from which one hydrogen atom has been removed are functional groups, called hydrocarbyls....

 and process industries.

Metso consists of three reporting segments: Mining and Construction Technology, Energy and Environmental Technology, and Paper and Fiber Technology.

Paper and Fiber Technology

Metso's Paper and Fiber Technology segment consists of four business lines: Paper business line, Fiber business line, Tissue business line and Fabrics business line.

Metso Paper is a global supplier of pulpmaking, papermaking, boardmaking and tissuemaking lines, covering all the processes from pulp making

Wood pulp

Pulp is a lignocellulosic fibrous material prepared by chemically or mechanically separating cellulose fibres from wood, fibre crops or waste paper. Wood pulp is the most common raw material in papermaking.-History:...

 to the wrapping of finished rolls. Metso Paper specializes in pulp and paper industry processes, machinery, equipment, services as well as paper machine clothing and filter fabrics. They have supplied over 1,500 paper machines and equipment for 800 pulping lines to customers worldwide. Approximately one third of the global paper production is performed on production systems supplied by Metso Paper and its predecessors (eg. Valmet

Valmet

' was a Finnish state-owned conglomerate. Valmet was formed in 1951, when the state of Finland decided to group their various factories working on war reparations to the Soviet Union under one company...

, Ahlström

Ahlstrom

Ahlstrom is a Finnish wood processing firm and a global manufacturer of specialty papers and nonwoven materials, using natural and synthetic fibers to produce roll goods for customers who turn them into hundreds of products. Ahlstrom's shares have been traded on the main list of the Helsinki Stock...

, Beloit

Beloit Corporation

Beloit Corporation began in 1858 as a foundry in the Wisconsin city of Beloit and ended in 2000 when it filed for bankrupty and parts of it were acquired by Metso Paper, a part of Metso Corporation...

, Wärtsilä

Wärtsilä

Wärtsilä is a Finnish corporation which manufactures and services power sources and other equipment in the marine and energy markets. The core products of Wärtsilä include large combustion engines...

, KMW, Sunds Defibrator).

In 2009 Metso's Paper and Fiber Technology net sales were EUR 1,408 million. In 2009, it had a personnel of 10,459. The company's largest market areas are Europe, Asia and North America.

Mining and Construction Technology

Metso's Mining and Construction Technology segment consists of two business lines: Services business line and Equipment and Systems business line.

Metso Minerals supplies rock and minerals processing systems to its customers in mining, aggregates production, quarrying and construction. Metso’s Process Technology Center in Colorado Springs, Colorado, USA, is developing virtual machines based on sophisticated multi-physics models. The use of this technology is rare within the mining industry, making Metso the leader in simulating these complex problems.

Energy and Environmental Technology

Metso's Energy and Environmental Technology segment consists of three business lines: Power business line, Automation business line and Recycling business line.

Metso Automation is a global supplier of machine and process automation for the pulp and paper industry, rock and minerals processing and the power and process industries.

Metso has the industry widest automation offering to pulp and paper industry covering applications and services ranging from specialty analyzers, automated laboratories, control and on/off valves to system for process control & information management, machine control, drive control and quality control

Quality Control System QCS for paper, board and tissue machines

A quality control system refers to a system used to measure and control the quality of moving sheet processes on-line; e.g. the paper produced by a paper machine. Generally, a control system is concerned with measurement and control of one or multiple properties in time;i.e. in a single dimension...

 with profilers.

Metso Power supplies fluidized bed boilers and recovery boilers, evaporators, environmental systems and service.

Materials Technology

Metso Materials Technology supplies and develops metallic materials for different industries. Metso Materials Technology has also contributed to both the CERN LHC

LHC

LHC may refer to:* Large Hadron Collider, a particle accelerator and collider located on the Franco-Swiss border near Geneva, SwitzerlandLHC also may refer to:* La hora Chanante, a Spanish comedy television show...

 and ITER

ITER

ITER is an international nuclear fusion research and engineering project, which is currently building the world's largest and most advanced experimental tokamak nuclear fusion reactor at Cadarache in the south of France...

projects.