Company Information: Over 80% of Outotec's business comes from the minerals and metals industry and the rest increasingly from the energy industry, chemical industry and industrial water treatment. . Outotec serves its customers globally through four business areas: . Non-ferrous Solutions: Providing technology solutions for the processing of copper, nickel, zinc, lead, gold, silver, and platinum group metals at all stages in the value chain from ore to metal. . Ferrous Solutions: Providing technology solutions for the processing of iron ores and other ferriferous materials in the entire value chain from ore to metal. . Energy, Light Metals and Environmental Solutions: Providing technology solutions for sulfuric acid production, off-gas handling, alumina refining, roasting, calcination, biomass and other renewable energy, oil shale and oil sands processing, as well as for industrial water treatment. . Services: Providing services for a plant's entire life time: spare part solutions, modernization solutions, technical services, operation and maintenance. Solutions: Outotec provides proven solutions for the whole chain of processing minerals to metals. . Minerals processing: - Grinding - Flotation - Filtration - Physical separation - Thickening and clarification - Analyzers and process automation . Metallurgical processing: - Sintering and pelletizing - Smelting and refining - Direct and smelting reduction - Calcination - Roasting and off-gass handling - Leaching and solution purification - Solvent extraction - Electrorefining and electrowinning - Process control . Chemicals: - Sulfuric acid production . Water treatment: - Neutralization, effluent treatment, drinking water . Energy: - Combustion and gasification, heat recovery, gas handling, bioenergy, oil sand and oil shale processing