
Why upgrade your grinding mill?
Production
Upgrades help you ramp up capacity
Reliability
Upgrades help to increase equipment life
Safety
Upgrades provide additional safety for crew
Maintenance
Upgrades help to simplify and speed up maintenance
Incorporating modern technology without major investment

Contamination, extreme heat, and insufficient lubrication all pose risks to your gears and pinions. If not prevented, these will cause accelerated wear and decreased operating life.
Ensure the health and longevity of your gears, with a gear guard upgrade. This includes support columns for safer maintenance, a gear spray system for optimal lubrication, infrared monitoring to track health, and a pressured and sealed system to prevent contamination.



Our trunnion liner upgrade replaces the existing single piece feed and discharge end trunnion liners with a two-piece design. The new design has proven to improve trunnion liner reliability, durability, and maintainability of the mill trunnion linings and bearings.
The main lining acts as a sleeve insert that is secured in the trunnion by a retaining ring. Dividing the trunnion liner into two pieces enables better distribution of the loading conditions. The improved load conditions reduce stress on the trunnion and fasteners to extend product durability and optimizes wear components.


The Metso Outotec slurry wheel upgrade is a retrofit sealing solution for the grinding mill feed end. The existing configuration is replaced with a new and improved slurry return system featuring a unique water-wheel design that significantly improves the material containment of the feed ends. More effective sealing helps to prevent excessive slurry spillage and reduces premature seal wear and its associated costs.
The Metso Outotec HSB upgrade is a modernization solution that helps maintain the optimal performance of grinding mill equipment. The proven design improves the durability and serviceability of both radial and axial hydrostatic bearing pads and is the standard arrangement in many new mill installations.
Existing bronze bearing pads are replaced with pads made from an advanced compound that significantly improves the maintenance, reliability, and longevity of both radial and axial pads. The upgrade solution helps reduce lost production time due to bearing-pad surface damage and decreases operational and maintenance costs.


A pulp lifter is used in grate discharge mills to pump the ground ore from the mill. An inefficient pulp lifter can cause a slurry pool to build up in the mill, resulting in partial dissipation of charge (balls and rock) kinetic energy into the fluid, reducing the energy available for breakage.
This is particularly evident in larger mills, which have a reduced grate area relative to their grinding volume and power, and where the pulp is lifted further to reach the discharge through the trunnion. There are a number of causes of inefficiency in a pulp lifter, and these must be addressed together to design an efficient pulp lifter.
Oil leakage from trunnion bearing seals can cause many environmental and administrative concerns. The Metso Outotec barricade seal arrangement solves the myriad of issues around the proper sealing of grinding mill main bearings. Our design incorporates protective properties superior to any arrangement yet brought to market. The Barricade arrangement is now standard supply for all new Metso Outotec mill installations and can be retrofitted to many existing mills.


A Feed Chute design that adds safety while improving serviceability and functionality at the same time. Our design features are proven to address the typical issues with feed chutes that often disrupt our customer's business.
Reduce downtime, improve safety and simplify access.
Features include:
- Rock-box design (shown here)
- Removable Chute Cover
- Liner Upgrades
- Inflatable and Labyrinth Seals
- Access Platform
- Access Hatch
- Carriage & Trolley Alignment Upgrades
Traditional bearing pads with accumulator circuits comprised of a lube unit, gauges, and nitrogen tanks take up a large footprint and often cause downtime due to maintenance requirements or failure.
Metso Outotec Polymer Pads use advanced material technology to deliver long-lasting performance extending the operating life and improves the bearings' reliability in bearing supported horizontal mills.
The pad design and the elastic properties of the polymer also ensure that an adequate film of oil is maintained throughout the operation of the mill.
The lubrication system is more efficient as no accumulator circuit is required which reduces space requirements, maintenance needs and improves safety.
