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Metso’s demerger approved by the Extraordinary General Meeting

Metso Corporation's Extraordinary General Meeting (EGM) held in Helsinki today, October 1, 2013, approved the Board of Directors' proposed plan for partial demerger and decided to demerge Metso into two companies. Metso's Pulp, Paper and Power business will be transferred to the new company, Valmet Corporation, and Mining and Construction and Automation business will remain part of Metso.

BMT Brings Further Innovation to the Mining Industry

BMT WBM, a subsidiary of BMT Group Ltd, has announced the development of an innovative modification and repair scheme which will dramatically improve the fatigue performance of cluster joints on existing tubular dragline boom designs. Once implemented, this modification can significantly reduce maintenance and inspection workloads for tubular boom draglines with long-term deterioration of existing clusters.