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31 December 2025

Press Release: Metso books third part of the orders related to Almalyk MMC’s copper smelter project in Uzbekistan

Metso Corporation’s Press Release – 31 December 2025

Metso has booked the third part of the orders for JSC Almalyk Mining and Metallurgical Complex’s (Almalyk MMC) copper smelter project based on the equipment and project services delivery contracts announced on August 9, 2024. The first parts of the orders (EUR 146 million) were booked in the fourth quarter of 2024, and the second part (EUR 50 million) in the first quarter of 2025. The order value recorded in the Minerals segment’s orders in the fourth quarter of 2025 is EUR 70 million. Possible additional orders will be announced once they have been signed and become effective.

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Almalyk MMC is the main copper producer in Uzbekistan. The company produces refined copper, gold, silver, zinc, molybdenum, lead concentrate, and other products. Metso’s scope of delivery to Almalyk MMC’s new copper smelter complex includes flash smelting and flash converting, gas cleaning, and sulfuric acid production technologies. The planned production capacity of the new copper smelter, which will be integrated with the company’s existing operations in Almalyk, is 300,000 tpa of copper cathodes and 1.8 million tpa of sulfuric acid.

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