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Just over a year ago, we replaced the pulley drive equipment for the KA1160 conveyor taken into use in the 1970s at Yara’s Siilinjärvi mine. Now it was time to replace the conveyor frame of the underground section of conveyor. The KA1160 transports crushed stone from the gyratory crusher to a day silo, from where Read more

Our nimble workers erected a pylon advertising tower. 😊👨‍🏭 Watch the video below. 🎥    

We would like to thank our customers and partners for the past year and wish everyone a merry Christmas! ✨✨✨ This year, instead of Christmas presents, we are supporting work by Save the Children in Finland. 🎁  

We manufactured a wash channel flow controller from 904L material for our customer.

Autumn downtime is complete.. 👍👨‍🔧

Senior designer Vesa Hartikainen, who studied mechanical engineering, has designed all kinds of projects throughout his career, from production lines to workpiece positioners and products of various sizes. Hartikainen describes his work at Simetek as fun and challenging. He has interesting projects on his desk, focusing mostly on heavy steel structures and material conveying. Smaller Read more

We fired up our trusty barbecue and grilled traditional midsummer sausages for the whole team! 🔥🔥🔥😋 We would like to wish everyone a relaxed and sunny midsummer! 😎☀️

The weight of a single truck bed is around 40 tonnes. The delivery included the assembly of 11 truck beds. Watch the video below to see how we assembly welded the truck bed:

Screw conveyors are suitable for moving, feeding, portioning, mixing, crushing, or dispersing different kinds of materials. Simetek manufactures screw conveyors for the mining and pulp industries and energy plants in particular, but smaller deliveries are possible. Conveyors can be used to move e.g. grains, rocky materials, lime, wood chips, ash, and peat. The conveyors’ closed Read more

Agnico Eagle Finland Oy’s Kittilä mine has already produced more than two million ounces of gold. It is Europe’s largest gold mine. Simetek Works Oy implemented a continuous-feed mixer to meet the Kittilä mine’s needs. It is a concrete mixer that mixes cement, water, and tailings into concrete. The end product is pumped underground to Read more

Simetek Works Oy’s founder Kari Roivainen found himself unemployed after his fixed-term employment as a maintenance manager at Kemira Oy, now Yara Suomi, ended as a result of the recession in the 1990s. Roivainen decided to set up his own company as a man with a toolbox, and began to carry out maintenance jobs at Read more

Read an article about our services (in Finnish) on page 57 of the Savon Yritysuutiset newspaper.

Last year, Simetek purchased a new fine-particle plasma cutting machine (Thermcut CD3500), which is used to cut steels that are sent for further processing in machining and welding – or are sent directly as cuts to the customer. The procurement of the machine relates to a significant development project that is under way in the Read more