Metso has acquired Copperstate Industrial Services, a mining services provider based in Phoenix, Arizona. The company transferred to Metso on August 1, 2011. Established in 1999, Copperstate has built a highly competent team of service personnel in the American hard rock mining region. Approximately 40 employees will transfer to Metso. The team will be integrated into the Services business line of Metso’s Mining and Construction Technology segment,  where they will continue to service existing clients. The team will be expanded  to further reinforce Metso’s maintenance, repair and retrofit business in the USA, Canada and Mexico.

“This fits directly in the centre of Metso’s profitable growth and development strategy” explains Randy Reisinger, Senior Vice President of Engineered Services Solutions, which includes the Spares, Repairs, Engineered-to-order and Field Service business units. “Metso’s objective is to enhance customer satisfaction by employing a larger faction of  knowledgeable, well-trained service people to meet customers’ skills and availability needs.”