Profile: Outotec, is a provider of process solutions, technologies and services for the mining and metallurgical industries. The company utilizes its extensive experience and advanced process know-how by providing plants, equipment and services based mainly on proprietary technologies. Outotec operates through three business divisions, minerals processing, base metals and metals processing. The technologies and services cover the whole production chain of processing minerals to metals and they are used in the production of ferrous metals and ferroalloys, alumina and aluminum, copper, nickel, zinc, precious metals, niobium, synthetic rutile, certain industrial minerals and sulfuric acid.