Kyshtym Electrolytic Copper Plant has produced 1 million tons of copper wire rod since its new shop was commissioned in 2007. Since mid-1990s the company has been producing copper wire rod using the Finnish oxygen-free technique of vertical casting. The capacity of the site was some 10 thousand tons of wire rod per year. With…
Kyshtym Electrolytic Copper Plant has received a first batch of machinery for the copper foil electrolysis shop currently under construction. In particular, the company has received 4 heat exchangers. They will be used at the first stage of copper foil manufacture. The next delivery is expected in Q2. The company will receive 2 electric cells…
In 2019 Kyshtym Electrolytic Copper Plant will switch its copper electrolysis shop to the operation on the stainless steel matrixes. At present some titanium matrixes are used in the manufacture. The switch to stainless steel matrixes began back in 2015 with the commission of a new machine. At that time 9 thousand stainless matrixes were…
In 2018 Karabashmed produced 139.2 thousand tons of raw copper, up by 12.5% YoY. Copper content was 99.2% with the target of 98.9%. Kyshtym Electrolytic Copper Plant produced 139.3 thousand tons of copper cathodes, up by 8%. In Q1 2018 the company commissioned two new rows of 40 electrolytic baths each, bringing the shop capacity…
Last year Kyshtym Electrolytic Copper Plant produced 128 thousand tons of copper cathodes, setting a historical record. According to the company CEO Andrei Kudryavtsev, it also produced 155 thousand tons of anodes and over 95 thousand tons of wire rods. This year the company is expected to manufacture 88.5 thousand tons of wire rod (the…
Kyshtym Electrolytic Copper Plant has mastered the shipping and transportation of goods to the seaports of St. Petersburg and Novorossiysk using container train. Previously the company shipped cargo via railroad using groups of containers. The container train is faster (900 km per day instead of 500 km per day), as it heads directly to the…
Kyshtym Electrolytic Copper Plant has carried out a scheduled repair of its main copper-smelting machine – the MAERZ furnace with the volume of 380 tons and the capacity of 125 thousand tons of anode copper per year. The furnace was shut down for only 24 hours. 20 tons of refractory bricks were used in repair.…
Kyshtym Electrolytic Copper Plant has received new Linde electric forklifts. The machines have been sent to the railroad and copper wire rod shops. They will be used to load products into containers. The forklifts operate on lithium-ion batteries, thus not polluting the closed premises. (Ukrainian metal)