Moventas Santasalo - Customized Heavy-Duty Mechanical Drive Solutions

Moventas Santasalo designs, manufactures and sells customized heavy duty mechanical drive solutions for mining and mineral applications, and start-up and customer support services covering the entire life-cycle of mechanical power transmission equipment. The company's products are built on technology developed by Metso Drives, Santasalo and Valmet. These names along with other previous brands Sauerwald, Asea, Wärtsilä; and Rauma-Repola are now all sold under the Santasalo trademark. Moventas is a member of AGMA.

Moventas Santasalo's product range includes helical and bevel-helical gear units, and coaxial, helical and bevel-helical planetary gear units. These drives and accessories are used for:

• Grinding mills
• Pyro processing
• Bulk material handling
• Process equipment: mixing, agitating
• Multi-segmented ring gears for grinding mills, kilns and drums

Mechanical power transmission for mining and mineral processing

Strong commitment to enhancing customers' processes, reliable products and extensive experience in gear drives for the mining and mineral industries are the hallmarks of Moventas Santasalo's operations and products. The company has been a reliable single-source partner for mechanical power transmission solutions for over 60 years.

Grinding mill drives

Moventas Santasalo has extensive experience in the design and manufacture of gear drives for grinding mill applications, which has been delivered worldwide since 1945 under the names Metso Drives, Santasalo and Valmet.

Specializing in the supply of helical, bevel-helical and planetary drive solutions for horizontal and vertical grinding mill applications, as well as ring gear and pinion sets for grinding mills, Moventas Santasalo's skilled engineering, manufacturing and installation services provide high-performance drive solutions with low running costs for even the most demanding grinding applications.

Application-specific gear drives for process equipment

Moventas Santasalo designs and manufactures a full range of gear drives for mineral processing applications, such as mixing, agitating, clarification and drying. Application-based design and advanced manufacturing processes enable the company to customize gear solutions to meet the stringent requirements of mineral processors with precision.

Advanced kiln drive gears for pyro processing

For kiln drive applications, Moventas Santasalo supplies technologically advanced products with high reliability and low running costs, which have held a strong global position since the early 1980s.

The kiln ring gear solution, based on the use of advanced materials and segmented design, offers unique advantages. Moventas Santasalo has supplied over 500 complete kiln drives for minerals, steel, cement, chemical and sugar industries, and pulp and paper industry applications around the world.

Custom-made multi-segmented spur and helical ring gears

Moventas is specialized in the design and manufacture of large diameter segmented ring gears used to rotate large drums, kilns and mills. The multi-segmented ring gear concept is originally developed by Moventas. With more than three decades of experience in large multi-segmented spur ring gears, we also offer helical design where preferred.

Moventas employs application-based design techniques to ensure that each ring gear is engineered to provide the optimum drive solution for both new installations and replacements. We design and deliver a complete package, including auxiliary drives, main reducers/gearboxes and bedplates. Our multi-segmented ring gears are machined to exacting tolerances, up to AGMA10 or ISO7 for certain applications.

High efficiency drives for bulk-material handling

Moventas Santasalo produces a wide range of highly customized gear drives for bulk-material handling customers globally. The company's background in conveying, stacker reclaiming and positioning drives allows Moventas Santasalo to offer high efficiency and long lifecycles.

Proactive service

After-sales service is the basis of Moventas Santasalo's partnership with the mining and mineral industries. From R&D throughout the lifecycle of equipment until upgrade and modernization, Moventas Santasalo works continuously to ensure trouble-free operation of customers' machinery.

By being proactive, Moventas Santasalo can anticipate and eliminate potential disturbances in mechanical power transmission. Throughout the lifecycle of machinery, the company's approach optimizes service intervals and cuts operating costs, improving process profitability throughout the lifetime of customers' investments in its products.

To ensure the efficiency of customers' processes Moventas Santasalo's after-sales service can provide drive installations, start up monitoring, gear replacements, drive upgrades, trouble shooting, user training, repairs and proactive maintenance, as well as annual service contracts.