15 Engineering testing Engineering services FLSmidth pr ovides the services r equir ed to engineer , pr ocur e and construct in virtually every major industrial market – fr om mining, metals minerals to hydr ocarbon pr ocessing and hazar dous incineration. Our full-time engineering teams ar e trained in each discipline. These teams pr ovide the best available solutions to your pr oject using the most curr ent r esour ces, training and softwar e. T esting FLSmidth continues to look for ways to impr ove service to our clients and r ecently constructed a new Minerals T esting Center . This facility has cr eated expanded services for incr eased pr ocess testing capabilities. The Minerals T esting Center houses the • Separation T echnology Gr oup • Dawson Metallurgical Laboratory • Analytical Laboratory • Or e Characterization Pr ocess Mineralogy Laboratory T esting capabilities • Or e Amenability T esting • Pr ocess Development • Flowsheet Layout • Plant design • Detailed engineering • Constructability analysis • Quantitative XRD rietveld mineralogy • SEM and optical micr oscopy • Automated mineral analysis • NIR data base development • Clay analysis • AAS, ICP , ICP-MS, LECO and fr e assay • Hydr ometallurgical testing • Flotation concentration • Grinding classifcation • Bench testing • Pilot testing Resear ch and development gr oup FLSmidth is committed to str ong and on-going Resear ch and development which is focused on developing new and impr oved equipment and pr ocessing technologies that pr ovide solutions to the ever -changing needs of our customers and the industries that we serve. Our RD and technology centers ar e globally located. In addition to our own facilities, we foster and fund cooperative RD ef forts with global universities and contracted r esear ch organizations. Interaction with our customers sets the foundation of many of our RD activities as seen by the numer ous pr ojects being conducted jointly with customers thr oughout the world.