In 2017 Kyshtym Electrolytic Copper Plant is expecting to produce the record 57 tons of selenium. The previous record of 48.3 tons of selenium was achieved in 2014. The increase in output is due to the complete transfer of the company to Karabashmed raw materials, and the manufacture grew from 4.8 tons per months to…
Kyshtym Electrolytic Copper Plant will assemble a new complex on MAERZ furnace gas purifying valued at 200 million rubles. Purification will reach 99%, and the total square of filtration will be 4.5 thousand square meters. The new gas-purifying equipment will be commissioned in H2 2018. (Ukrainian metal)
Kyshtym Electrolytic Copper Plant has finished the assembly of two additional rows of electrolysis baths within the program to increase copper cathode capacities. Each row includes 40 ferroconcrete baths. The project will increase cathode output by 16.7%, to 140 thousand tons per year. Investments in the modernization are estimated at 420 million rubles. (Ukrainian metal)
Kyshtym Electrolytic Copper Plant intends to continue modernization. In particular, the company wants to completely switch to electrolysis bathes made of polymer concrete. This material is long lasting (up to 25 years), resilient and easy to use. “Now the copper electrolysis shop has ferroconcrete bathes. Every 5 years they need their lining replaced, and every…
In January-September Kyshtym Electrolytic Copper Plant produced 97127.8 tons of copper cathodes, up by 8.6% YoY. Copper wire rod output went up by 6.1%, to 72.784 tons, silver – by 2.3%, gold – by 30%. “This year we intend to produce 128 thousand tons of copper cathodes, up by 5% YoY”, the company CEO Andrei…
Kyshtym Electrolytic Copper Plant is modernizing its copper wire rod shop. The company intends to replace the casting machine, increase the wheel diameter, furnace capacity, and assemble new engines. This will allow improving the speed of the technological chain to 20 tons per hour and output to 140 thousand tons of copper wire rod per…
Kyshtym Electrolytic Copper Plant is preparing to assemble new conveyers in the copper electrolysis shop. The transport lines will connect the current and additional electrolysis baths. The system will include 2 universal and 2 accumulative conveyers. The universal reverse transporters with the lifting capacity of 25 tons each will be used to move matrices, matrices…
A separate shop to produce copper wire rod was created at Kyshtym Electrolytic Copper Plant in 2007. With the new Southwire continuous casting technology the works increased wire rod output from 10 thousand tons to 100 thousand tons per year. Now the company has begun another modernization project. It plans to install a new casting…
