Atlas Copco discontinues mobile crushing and screening business

Atlas Copco, a provider of sustainable productivity solutions based in Stockholm, Sweden, has discontinued its Powercrusher business, in which it had manufactured and sold mobile crushers and screeners for the quarrying, civil engineering and recycling industries.

Atlas Copco says it will stop the manufacturing in the plant in St. Valentin, Austria, during 2015. The company also notes that it will arrange for customers getting aftermarket service support for the existing fleet in the future.

“We are discontinuing this business as it does not fit strategically for us,” says Johan Halling, president of Atlas Copco’s Mining and Rock Excavation Technique business area. “We will ensure existing Powercrusher customers will continue to have their equipment serviced in the best way.”

The Powercrusher business has about 70 employees.

Atlas Copco’s Mining and Rock Excavation Technique business area provides equipment for drilling and rock excavation, a complete range of related consumables and service through a global network, the company says. The business area innovates for sustainable productivity in surface and underground mining, infrastructure, civil works, well drilling and geotechnical applications. Principal product development and manufacturing units are located in Sweden, the United States, Canada, China and India.