Metso offers new compact crushing system

Finland-based Metso has introduced what it calls “the game-changing” Metso NW Series crushing and screening plant. Available to customers worldwide, the NW Series “enables rapid plant setup in less than 12 hours without heavy cranes,” says Metso.

The innovation “allows customers to make even the most challenging crushing sites more profitable and move to the next site more easily than ever,” Metso says of its NW Series. It also calls the NW the first and only wheel-mounted crushing plant on the market that fits compactly into standard 40-foot (12-meter) containers to be shipped quickly and cost efficiently overseas or by rail.

The Metso NW106 primary jaw crushing plant and the NW220GPD secondary cone crushing plant comprise the crushing units in the NW Series. Hydraulically fine-adjustable support legs, hopper walls and screen lifting facilitate fast installation and dismantling. The plant also has been designed to be easy and safe to operate and maintain on site, says the company.

“Setting up a conventional portable crushing and screening plant often requires preparations with foundations and other site conditions,” says Eric Lavieville, global product manager of portable plants for Metso. “The new Metso NW Series plant solution is designed to avoid all these challenges, and only minimal preparations on site are required.”

Lavieville says Metso’s completely new plant conveyor design with fewer support legs makes setup quick and simple. No heavy cranes or concrete foundations are needed. Service platforms on the conveyors are designed to make daily operations easier and safer on all job sites.

Typical capacity of the Metso NW Series portable plant with very hard feed material and four calibrated end products is 20 percent higher compared with any conventional solution now available in the same size class, according to the company. The increased capacity is achieved in part by using a Nordberg GP220 cone crusher and a dual-slope screen. The screen enables higher screening performance and the whole process can be precisely adjusted by Metso’s new process control system, according to the company.

The company also says its IC50C process control system is designed to form a seamless combination between the primary crushing stage and the secondary crushing and screening stage of the plant. The whole process can be started and stopped by the push of a single button, making daily operations easy and safe.

A video demonstrating the NW Series can be found at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2DHXzkgTvZg&feature=youtu.be.