Being a technology leader in providing plant and equipment solutions for alumina calcination, part of our mission at Metso Outotec is to provide our customers with integrated services that ensure reliability, maximum performance, and safe operation of their plants and process equipment. Our service portfolio is aimed at improving the OEE (Overall Equipment Efficiency) and provides support to customers to improve their performance with regards to availability, throughput, and product quality.
Our service portfolio includes equipment inspections, plant audits, CFD modeling as well as research and development, including lab and pilot plant facilities, providing troubleshooting and solution optimization. Our knowledge is based on years of expertise and experience, in conjunction with the development of key spare parts and maintenance-friendly equipment packages, we can perform modernizations and upgrades to boost the reliability of your plants. Our range of alumina calciner services is typically associated with shutdowns which are extremely challenging procedures for many customers, characterized by tight schedules to reduce production losses, high costs, and risks.
Our comprehensive shutdown planning and management procedures have advanced over decades of successful furnace shutdown services, greenfield plant installations, and brownfield modernizations, specifically for CFB calciners. We are also pioneers in the development of digital tools for the metals and mining sectors, our calciner optimizer digitization offering primarily targets the improvement of energy efficiency of calciner operations.