Metso, a Finnish firm providing sustainable technologies for the aggregates, minerals processing and metals refining sectors, has opened a new digital design and development studio in Krakow, Poland
The firm said the digital design studio is part of its continuing investment in digitalization and will play an important role in the development and implementation of digital solutions to enable customer value creation and meet global industry needs.
Metso has approximately 50 digital experts working in the Krakow office and the number is expected to increase significantly within the next months.
All in all, Metso has some 250 people working on its portfolio of digital solutions.
“Opening of the Digital Design and Development Studio marks the next phase in our digital offering development journey,” said Olivier Guyot, senior vice-president for minerals digital at Metso.
“This new digital capabilities and knowledge hub centers around the competences related to software development, design, data, UX design and AI required to serve our customers’ increasing appetite for advanced digital solutions.”
‘Digital with a purpose’
“Digital is a critical enabler for new sources of value because it helps our clients to optimize throughput and recoveries, increase equipment uptime and availability, and enable productivity while improving the sustainability of their operations,” Guyot said.
“Digital solutions can also be the answer to reducing the knowledge gap and labor shortage in the industry.”
In digital design for minerals processing customers, Metso is focusing on three main impact areas:
- Equipment performance to provide digitally enhanced lifecycle services, remote condition monitoring and prescriptive maintenance.
- Process performance digital portfolio to optimize customers’ ore-to-metal operations for efficiency and sustainability.
- Business enablement to enhance the customer experience and improve employees’ productivity within a data-driven, AI-augmented environment.
Metso is developing several solutions across these three areas. The new talents in the digital design and development studio in Poland will contribute to these, working closely with the global team.
Headquartered in Espoo, Finland, Metso employs over 17,000 people in close to 50 countries. Sales for 2023 were about €5.4bn. The company is listed on the Nasdaq Helsinki.
