Metso Ventures includes businesses with synergies in Metso's three core business areas, new businesses and businesses under strategic development. Environmental trends in end-customer industries boil indirectly down to Metso Ventures business. From an environmental point of view, the major areas of Metso Ventures business are material innovations and gears for wind turbines. New materials technology contributes to extended product life cycles and thus reduces the environmental impacts deriving from the extraction and production phases of the product. New materials technology can also substantially reduce maintenance-related environmental impacts.

Materials technology is one of the fastest developing fields of technology. Metso has an extensive knowledge base in materials technology, making it possible, in a profitable and effective way, to adapt a new business concept which supports the Metso Future Care business concept. Significant competitive factors are created with the help of this new concept by shifting the main focus from the delivery of spare and wear parts to the maintenance and modernization of customer plants.

The world is turning to wind power at a great pace. Metso Ventures is one of the world’s most important manufacturers of gears for wind power plants. All components of a wind power plant have to be especially durable and high–quality because the plants are sited amid severe environments: on the coast, in the mountains and in the desert. Gears are designed for a long life cycle with the utilization of the new materials technology.