Atlas Copco, a leading provider of sustainable productivity solutions, has decided to discontinue its Powercrusher business, in which it manufactures and sells mobile crushers and screeners for quarrying, civil engineering and recycling. The move comes less than five years after Atlas Copco acquired the assets through its purchase of Hartl Anlagenbau GmbH in August 2010. At the time, the then Business Area President of Atlas Copco Construction & Mining Technique stated: “The acquisition increases Atlas Copco’s participation in the customer value chain and makes us a more complete partner to our customers in these segments”, however, with the latest annoucement, Johan Halling, President of Atlas Copco’s Mining and Rock Excavation Technique business area states: “we are discontinuing this business as it does not fit strategically for us.”

Atlas Copco will stop manufacturing at the plant in St. Valentin, Austria, during 2015 and will arrange for customers getting aftermarket service support for the existing fleet also in the future. Halling added: “we will ensure existing Powercrusher customers will continue to have their equipment serviced in the best way.” The Powercrusher business has about 70 employees and had revenues in 2014 of about MSEK 255 (€28 million). The product line includes track-mounted jaw crushers, impact crushers, cone crushers and screening plants. The jaw crushers (up to 350 t/h) feature a unique quattro movement for maximum processing efficiency.