Metso Outotec – Force for change in the aggregates and ancillary sectors

With a massive footprint in the global mining sector – open cast and underground – it could be argued that Finnish manufacturer Metso Outotec knows more than a thing or two about the business of rock crushing.

And with the (somewhat unsung) reputation that Finnish producers have for quality and excellence in design and manufacturing, the Metso Outotec name is one that conjures up value in all matters. Distributed in Ireland and in Northern Ireland by leading construction plant distributor, McHale Plant Sales, Metso Outotec equipment is represented by people with a vast knowledge of what it is that customers look for in such an important item of construction equipment. With 25 plus years as distributor of Komatsu construction equipment behind them, McHale Plant Sales, as represented by its founder and chairman Michael McHale and his recently enlarged Board of Directors, is a company embedded in the sectors that it serves.

Guided by a belief, enunciated by its chairman Michael McHale, that ‘you cannot sell to an industry if you don’t fully understand what its needs are, and the priorities that a customer may have when choosing an expensive item of plant and equipment,’ the company has a footprint that embraces construction and civil works, forestry and timber production, and services to the agriculture, manufacturing and waste processing sectors from its centres in Rathcoole, south of Dublin, and in Birdhill, near Limerick city. In the case of Metso Outotec, their extensive product offering breaks down into two main lines – plant that is specified and designed to operate in a fixed location and that which is mobile and transportable within a site or movable from project to project or from location to location within an overall development. One notable recent Metso Outotec sale saw a model HP300MAC fixed cone crusher delivered to the renowned Northern Ireland quarry operator, Ballymena-based Robinson Quarry Masters. Speaking to MPANI Journal, their managing director Stephen Robinson said: “this latest purchase is a like-for-like replacement for a similar Metso machine that served us faithfully for all of 22 years.” With over a century-and-a-half experience, annual sales of EUR 4.2 billion, a presence in 50 countries, and a payroll of 15,000 employees, Metso Outotec is a force within its sector. A frontrunner in sustainable technologies and end-to-end solutions, the company has a major focus on all of the priorities that influence decision making today. According to Denis McGrath, sales director at McHale Plant Sales: “without exception, our customers have their minds firmly fixed on the future. They want to be kept up to date on what the products of the future will be and the materials that will be needed to produce them.” “Central to all of this will be the production of materials and compounds that satisfy sustainability goals, that meet environmentally approved standards, and that are, themselves, climate friendly in everyday use and recyclable at end-of life” McGrath added.

“In these matters, Metso Outotec brings to the table a fund of knowledge, experience and research. More than just machines, customers who commit to Metso Outotec equipment also buy-in to knowledge and support across a myriad of subjects likely to influence thought and decision-making well into the future” he added.

Not just in aggregates production, the hand of Metso Outotec can be seen in a diverse range of areas. One such area is mining – an endeavour that many now believe will play an even more significant role in Ireland’s future. Another relates to the process of recycling whereby much of what we now regard as waste could soon become essential raw materials in the production of the goods and services future generations will consume. In building and construction, in road and motorway development, in marine environments, and in the expanding fields of energy generation and capture, we can see how science is pointing the way towards change. It is in that regard that distributors like McHale Plant Sales and those they represent, firms such as Metso Outotec, will evolve.

Metso Outotec HP5 Crushing unit recently fitted to a new static plant by McHale Plant sales