Kyshtym Electrolytic Copper Plant, a part of the Russian Copper Company, will soon start producing copper electrolytic foil. The company will have a new shop with capacity of 1.2 thousand tons per year. Investments will exceed 3 billion rubles. Global market of electrolytic foil is expected to have reached $16 billion by the end of…
Representatives of Kyshtym Electrolytic Copper Plant – the chief engineer Alexander Sidorenko and his deputy Anton Shabalin – have participated in the Copper 2019 conference in Canada. Since the company intends to construct a new electrolysis shop, the engineers were interested for the most part in the pure copper cathode manufacture. In particular, the modern…
Kyshtym Electrolytic Copper Plant has finished transferring its electrolysis shop to using stainless steel matrixes. Previously the company has been also using titanium matrixes to produce copper cathodes. In several stages 18 thousand matrixes have been replaced at the plant. Moreover, now all the electrolytic baths will be serviced by one Outotec machine instead of…
Kyshtym Electrolytic Copper Plant has received a set of power machinery for the copper foil electrolysis shop under construction. In particular, the company has received two out of six rectifiers and four dry transformers with the capacity of 3.2 MW each. The machinery will be assembled when the construction works in the new shop are…
Kyshtym Electrolytic Copper Plant has started modernizing the copper electrolysis shop. The capacity of the new shop, to be commissioned in 2021, will be 230 thousand tons of cathodes per year. Investments will amount to $60 million. The work is divided in two stages: the first will have been commissioned by May 2020, and the…
Kyshtym Electrolytic Copper Plant has received 2 first electrolytic cells for the copper foil electrolysis shop being constructed. The equipment arrived from Japan. Assembly is scheduled for Q3. Six foundation pits have been prepared for the cells in the shop, as well as the site for the foil-coating machine, which is being manufactured in Japan…
Kyshtym Electrolytic Copper Plant has assembled two bridge remote-controlled cranes in its copper foil shop, which is currently under construction. The new machinery with the lifting capacity of 10 tons was produced by Verta. When the two cranes are commissioned, the two old 5-ton cranes will be disassembled. (Ukrainian metal)
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…
