Drillcon SMOY

Versatile geological exploration services

Suomen Malmi Oy (Drillcon Smoy) is the Finnish branch of the Drillcon Group (www.drillcon.se), the leading European geological contracting company. Smoy was established in 1935. Today Smoy is a contracting company specialised in geological sampling of the soil and bedrock and in geological surveys with modern geophysical equipment. Our main market is in prospecting for mineral deposits, in the mining industry and in engineering geology.

The offices and depot of Smoy are located in Juvanmalmi industrial park in Espoo, along Ringroad III, 30 minutes from the centre of Helsinki and 20 minutes from the Helsinki-Vantaa airport. The production of Smoy takes place mainly at work sites in the field. Ordinarily we have more than 20 active sites at one time. In practice, the majority of our personnel are continuously out on contracts in the field.

Core drillings and geophysical surveying are the main services of Smoy. About one fourth of the turnover is generated from projects abroad. Smoy has accumulated global experience about working in different conditions with work references from 37 countries on all continents but Antarctica.

The sales of Smoy amounted to 10 million euro in 2009. The average number of personnel was 130. Capital expenditure in new equipment was about 0.5 million euro.

Smoy is a member in e.g. the following organisations: The Federation of Finnish Tecnology Industries (Confederation of Finnish Industries EK), Metallgruppen (Confederation of Swedish Enterprise), Association of Finnish Extractive Resources Industry (FinnMin), Finnish Tunnelling Association, Finnish Geotechnical Society, Swedish Society for Advanced Drilling (FAB) and Helsinki Chamber of Commerce.

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