There is a continual projected growth in base metal mining and refineries because more metal demand use in global manufacturing. The increasing use of more elements drives the uneven distribution of mineral deposits and metal extraction facilities across the globe. However, material criticality has become an issue of concern for governments, manufacturers, and other stakeholders because of uneasiness surrounding supply risks and environmental impacts. Thus, the supply is dependent on both regulatory and economic factors.

Consequently, these mines and refinery plants have to significantly put investments in both equipment and process. This trend is causing especially for the aging smelters and mines have to adapt the new technology in order enhance the output with as little as possible the impacts on the environment. 

Copper is one of the key materials for many base metals production processes to generate the best output. At Oriental Copper, we involve in this industry by providing efficient copper conductors to base metal refineries, chorine refining, and aluminum smelters.

For example, Aluminum is a comparatively new industrial metal that has been produced in commercial quantities for just over 100 years, which is still the technological basis for primary aluminum smelting. Since the beginning, there have been continued efforts to improve cell design. Our OC-ETP® copper anode bars work for their electrolysis cells at very high amperage.

In addition, almost all metals can be purified by electrorefining process at the mine site. Electrorefining of the anode materials is a purification process to remove the ingredients that may harm the physical, chemical, and mechanical properties of the base materials. However, raw materials for smelting are becoming more complex so that electrorefining process is constantly changing and improving. This has increased the importance of recovering high-purity base metals by electrowinning process at present. 

Oriental Copper products have been involved in the supply of refining industry for nearly 30 years. Our OC-ETP® copper bars are widely accepted and used in high current DC busbar systems of the electrowinning process in base metal refineries, chorine refining.

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