Finance & business

Metso has received an order to deliver the third iron ore sintering plant to be built at Steel Authority of India Ltd. (SAIL) IISCO Steel Plant (ISP) in Asansol, West Bengal, India.

Omnia Holdings company BME has strengthened its blasting software offering beyond its premium Blastmap™ blast planning platform through a new partnership with technology leader Strayos.

Vortex Global is excited to announce a strategic realignment of its North American sales territories, effective 1 October 2025.

Cavotec has signed a contract with Australian construction and engineering company Civmec for the supply of a motorised cable reel to be installed at Port Hedland, Western Australia, one of the world’s largest iron ore export facilities.

Technology group Wärtsilä will supply the equipment for a power plant needed to operate a new gold mine in Guyana.

SLR announces that it has acquired Forte Dynamics and Forte Analytical, leading US mining engineering and metallurgical testing specialists.

Vulcan Energy announces Australian company, JordProxa, as the technology and equipment partner for the lithium purification, concentration and conversion process for the Phase One Lionheart Project near Landau, Germany, following the signing of the supply contracts.

Digital Catapult has announced a £400,000 investment in deep tech startup Optimal Slope, a mining technology company on a mission to transform opencast mining into a more efficient and environmentally sustainable industry.

Alfred H Knight (AHK), a global provider of inspection, testing, and consultancy services with a rich heritage in the mining, metals, and minerals industry, has formed a strategic partnership with Ajlan & Bros Mining (ABM), a leading force in Saudi Arabia’s mineral development sector.

ABB has successfully completed a gearless mill drive (GMD) service scope at Barrick’s Pueblo Viejo gold mine in the Dominican Republic during a planned maintenance shutdown.

Caterpillar Inc. has entered into an agreement to acquire RPMGlobal Holdings Limited, an Australian-based software company.

Vulcan Energy announces that it has signed an offtake agreement with a wholly owned subsidiary of Glencore plc, one of the world’s largest natural resource companies, to provide battery-quality lithium hydroxide monohydrate (LHM) from its Phase One Lionheart Project.

I-Pulse Co-Founder, Chairman and CEO Robert Friedland and Laurent Frescaline, Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer, welcome Codelco as the company’s latest strategic investor and key partner in the development and commercialisation of its disruptive pulsed power technologies.

ABB and Swedish mining and minerals group LKAB have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to form a strategic technology partnership to shape the future of mining.

Minérios Itaúna Ltda (Minerita) has selected Metso to supply all key comminution equipment for its greenfield Compact iron ore project located in Itatiaiuçu, Minas Gerais, Brazil. The plant aims to produce 4.5 Mtpy of high-grade premium pellet feed in two phases.