Salt Lake City: Livability in the 21st Century

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FLSMIDTH
Above: FLSmidth’s global headquarters for its Mineral Processing division,
located in Salt Lake City, supports mining projects throughout the world,
including Rio Tinto’s Kennecott copper mine in Bingham Canyon.
Below: The Minerals Testing and Research Center on FLSmidth’s
Salt Lake City campus brings together research and development and pilot
testing resources, along with ore characterization and process mineralogy
laboratories and a state-of-the-art automated sample preparation system,
all in a single facility.
With offices in more than fifty countries and over 15,000
employees worldwide—including its Mineral Processing
division here in Salt Lake City—Denmark-based FLSmidth
is one of the world’s largest minerals industry suppliers.
Serving the international mining community as its One
Source supplier, FLSmidth has created an unmatched
portfolio of accomplishments by combining the proven
reliability and quality of the mining industry’s leading
brands through a number of strategic acquisitions over
the last twenty-five years, including: ABON, Buffalo, CEntry,
Conveyor Engineering, Dawson Metallurgical Laboratories,
Decanter Machine, Dorr-Oliver, EIMCO, Essa,
FFE, Fuller-Traylor, KOCH, Knelson, Krebs,
Ludowici, MAAG Gear, Mayer Bulk, M.I.E.
Enterprises, Möller, MVT, PERI, Phillips Kiln
Services, Pneumapress, RAHCO, Raptor,
Roymec, Shriver, Summit Valley, Technequip,
WEMCO, Vecor and Ventomatic.
FLSmidth’s deep connection with Salt Lake
City is rooted in EIMCO, founded by Nathan
Rosenblatt, a Russian immigrant, in the 1880s.
Originally located on the corner of 800 South
and State Street, Rosenblatt first opened his
scrap metal collection business in downtown
Salt Lake. Over the years EIMCO’s business
ventures evolved, becoming first a brass foundry,
then a custom machine shop and eventually a
world leader in separation equipment. Today,
with EIMCO as part of its diverse brand
family, FLSmidth has become a mining
industry leading supplier, offering a range of
products, tools and services from single
machinery to complete cement plants and
minerals processing facilities, including
services before, during, and after construction.
As the global headquarters for the Mineral Processing
division of FLSmidth, the Salt Lake City office supports
mining projects throughout the world, including Rio Tinto’s
Kennecott copper mine in Bingham Canyon. The Salt Lake
City office was instrumental in landing FLSmidth a very large
project in Mongolia consisting of two contracts with the
Mongolyn Alt (MAK) Group; one to supply a greenfield copper
concentrator and the other to supply a complete cement
plant. This is the first time a project of this magnitude has
been undertaken by a single company in the mining industry
and shows the success and strength of both the technology
and the efforts of the employees who worked on the project.
FLSmidth’s current and future development plans
include ongoing research with special emphasis on the use
of alternative fuels, reducing emissions and waste, improving
heat recovery, decreasing power consumption, minimizing
water consumption, increasing plant capacity, availability
and operating efficiency and minimizing safety risks. The
Minerals Testing and Research Center, inaugurated in Salt
Lake City in September 2010, is a cornerstone project of
these efforts. The center brings together R&D and pilot
testing resources, along with the process testing laboratory
in a single facility, serving as the springboard for solving
customers’ processing issues and developing new solutions
and products. As a result of the focus on innovation and the
R&D investment, FLSmidth files an increasing number of
priority patent applications every year.
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