Finnish
mining and metal manufacturing equipment provider
Outotec has announced that it has agreed with Swedish miner LKAB regarding the design and turnkey delivery of a gas cleaning plant to LKAB's
iron ore pellet plant in Malmberget, Sweden.
The order, approximately worth €38 million, has been booked in
Outotec's order intake in the fourth quarter of 2012. The plant is scheduled to be commissioned in 2014.
According to
Outotec's statement, the new gas cleaning plant to be delivered by
Outotec will further clean the off-gases at the existing MK3
iron ore pelletizing plant from sulfur dioxide, fluorides, chlorides and dust to meet the
European Union's new higher environmental legislation requirements that will be in force as of 2016.