Karabashmed has started preparing a construction site to erect a new site to produce copper anodes. The site will be situated in the metallurgical shop. The workers have started disassembling old metal structures. The new anode site will increase copper manufacture by a third, to 230 thousand tons per year, and create a new manufacture…
Karabashmed has put out of operation the last of the three 60-ton converters. They are replaced by new Kumera machinery with the capacity of 150 tons each. Soon the old converters Nos. 2 and 3 will be disassembled. Two new converters have already been commissioned. (Ukrainian metal)
Karabashmed is finishing a large-scale modernization of the converter site at the metallurgical shop. The last of the three Kumera converters has been assembled. All the work is expected to be finished in Q2. At the same time in the sulfuric acid shop the company is assembling 4 new moist electric filters. (Ukrainian metal)
In order to create safe labor conditions Russian Copper Company enterprises gradually implement the integrated management system according to ISO 14001:2015 and OHSAS 18001:2007. In February Karabashmed passed the first supervisory audit of the systems. The certificates were received in June 2018. (Ukrainian metal)
Karabashmed has started assembling metal structures and sites needed to operate four new moist electric filters in the sulfur acid shop. The assembly will last for a month. The electric filters will be commissioned in June. (Ukrainian metal)
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…
Karabashmed has started disassembling the first of its three outdated converters in the metal shop. All the three converters are expected to have been decommissioned by H2. Instead of the outdated machinery Karabashmed has already assembled three new Kumera converters with dust caps with the volume of 150 tons. Two converters have already been put…
Karabashmed has commissioned the second of three Kumera converters. Two new converters with the capacity of 150 tons each will increase raw copper manufacture by 15-20%. The third converter will be commissioned this year, while the old machines will be disassembled. (Ukrainian metal)