Larox, founded in 1977 and headquartered at

Lappeenranta Lappeenranta (; sv, Villmanstrand) is a city and municipality in the region of South Karelia, about from the Russian border and from the town of Vyborg (''Viipuri''). It is situated on the shore of the Lake Saimaa in southeastern Finland, and ...

Finland Finland ( fi, Suomi ; sv, Finland ), officially the Republic of Finland (; ), is a Nordic country in Northern Europe. It shares land borders with Sweden to the northwest, Norway to the north, and Russia to the east, with the Gulf of B ...

, was a Finnish engineering company that developed, designed and manufactured industrial filters for use in

mining Mining is the extraction of valuable minerals or other geological materials from the Earth, usually from an ore body, lode, vein, seam, reef, or placer deposit. The exploitation of these deposits for raw material is based on the economic via ...

and

metallurgy Metallurgy is a domain of materials science and engineering that studies the physical and chemical behavior of metallic elements, their inter-metallic compounds, and their mixtures, which are known as alloys. Metallurgy encompasses both the sc ...

, chemical processing and related industries.

Outotec Outotec Oyj (Outokumpu Technology prior to 24 April 2007) was a Finnish company, headquartered in Espoo, aimed at providing technologies and services for the metal and mineral processing industries. In 2020 Outotec merged with Metso Minerals and ...

launched a €93 million takeover bid for the company in October 2009 and holds over 98% of its shares as of 26 February 2010. After

Metso Metso Oyj was a Finnish industrial machinery company focusing on providing technology and services for mining, Construction aggregate, aggregates, and Petroleum industry, oil and gas, recycling, pulp and paper and other process industries. On ...

merger, completed in July 2020, Larox filtration technologies are currently part of

Metso Outotec Metso Outotec Oyj is a Finnish Public company, publicly traded company that was established in 2020 when Outotec and Metso, Metso Minerals merged. The company is focusing on providing technology and services for aggregates, minerals processing an ...

portfolio.

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