XPS and Precia Molen are Pleased to Announce their Partnership, agreed during CIM Montréal 2025
Montreal, Canada – May 7
XPS Industry Relevant Solutions, a Glencore company and a pioneer in metallurgical and mineral processing technology, and Precia Molen, a leader in weighing solutions for all activity sectors, having collaborated successfully on numerous joint projects in Canada since 2018, agreed that XPS is now an official distributor of Precia Molen’s products in Canada and for Glencore’s operations worldwide.
The extended Partnership will combine XPS’ world-class capabilities in mining and refining processes, process mass balances, metal accounting, instrumentation and process control with Precia Molen’s industrial know-how and field services capabilities. It will allow the mining and refining industry to get highly qualified teams to provide high-value and state-of-the-art solutions to enhance their operations.
"We have been working on this sector for decades, offering tailor-made, highly effective solutions. We are as happy as proud to count XPS among the members of the PreciaMolenClub."
Salim Guerba - Export Manager for Precia Molen HQ in France
“XPS has multiple success stories in concentrators (both base metals and gold) where we were asked to reduce SAG or ball mill feed instability and to find solutions to inaccurate mass balances. In multiple cases, the conveyor belt scale was a real challenge – so much so that people asked us whether a weightometer can ever really be accurate in the mining industry. It sounds easy, but limited space, conveyor designs that are not fully compatible with a weighing application, and limited calibration options are often the reality. By combining Precia Molen’s unique belt scale technology with XPS' expertise in installation, calibration, metrology, training, and maintenance of such equipment on industrial conveyors, we have not only been able to guarantee accuracy and repeatability, but we have also rationalized maintenance and calibration efforts. This partnership gives us the opportunity to support the mining, metals, and recycling industries not only with belt scales, but with all weighing measurement requirements from mine to port.”
Jan Smit - Vice President of XPS Industry Relevant Solutions
For further information, if you would like to talk to us about a project or if you need a formal proposal, please contact: ap@xps.ca.
About XPS
XPS Industry Relevant Solutions, a Glencore company, is a team of metallurgists, engineers, geoscientists, technicians and technologists with real world experience in characterization, process development/optimization, asset integrity management and mine/process automation.
Because weighing is essential for real-time process control in your mines and plants, and for accurate, repeatable mass balance and metal accounting, XPS provides solutions that meet your expectations once installed in your facility. We also provide services to reduce maintenance costs and ensure that your calibration procedures are adequate throughout the lifecycle of your assets.
About Precia Molen
Every gram counts.
Because the world is changing. Because we live in a world with limited resources.
Every single gram counts, and will count more and more. The PRECIA MOLEN group has been designing, manufacturing, selling, installing, certifying, repairing, maintaining and checking industrial and commercial weighing instruments for over 70 years.
It all started with scales. It's fascinating to see that everything around us, everything we use or consume, has been weighed dozens of times.
Each resource is extracted, weighed, loaded, weighed, unloaded, weighed, analysed, mixed, weighed, processed, weighed, re-processed, weighed and measured, stored, distributed, weighed, used or consumed, and what's left is sorted, weighed... and sometimes recycled. This resource then becomes tomorrow's resource.
The world is changing, Precia Molen is evolving.
Sometimes you need a weight, an objective arbiter in a commercial exchange. PRECIA MOLEN offers you a catalogue of standard equipment, that can be adapted to your environment, configured according to your needs for a weight that is always accurate. This is the mission of our Weighing Solutions teams.
Sometimes it's more than just a scale - it's a key element at the heart of your production. PRECIA MOLEN helps to improve your processes with integrated, customised solutions (hardware, software, services, etc.). This is the mission of our Engineering Solutions teams.
This is the embodied vision of the PRECIA MOLEN group: accepting that we all belong to something bigger than ourselves, to a complex dynamic system. Our challenges are the same, and in this world we must collectively do better.
This is PRECIA MOLEN's mission, its raison d'être.