According to Mysteel's incomplete statistics, a total of 16 copper projects in China had announced the progress of production or environmental protection assessment as of February 28. CNMC Daye's clean production of high-purity copper cathode project with a total investment of Yuan 8.7 billion was put into operation on February 14, and Jiayuan Technology's high-performance copper foil project was put into operation on February 20.
China's Copper Projects Progress in Feb 2023 |
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No. |
Company |
Project |
Type |
Investment Amount (million Yuan) |
Annual Capacity |
Progress |
1 |
Enpack |
Composite copper foil for lithium battery of new energy vehicles |
New |
3,089 |
- |
Announcement signing on Feb 5 |
2 |
Jinguan Copper |
Flash furnace smelting technology and energy conservation and environmental protection upgrading |
Upgrade |
- |
400kt of copper cathode, 80kt of copper anode |
Publicity before an environmental assessment on Feb 6 |
3 |
Jiangxi Kaichuang Copper |
Copper products |
New |
2,000 |
56kt of copper ingots and bars in Phase I, 34kt of recast copper in Phase II |
Publicity of environmental assessment approval decision on Feb 10 |
4 |
KYEE Copper |
Copper deep processing |
Upgrade |
- |
- |
Publicity of environmental protection assessment reply on Feb 13 |
5 |
Baoming New Material |
Lithium composite copper foil manufacturing base (phase I) |
New |
1,150 |
150 million m2 of 4.5μm and 6μm lithium battery composite copper foil |
Publicity of environmental protection assessment reply on Feb 13 |
6 |
Bao Tai Group |
Copper semis surface treatment |
Expanded |
- |
20kt of tinned high-precision oxygen-free profiled copper bars, 20kt of tinned copper bars, 20kt of tinned copper bars |
Publicity of environmental protection assessment reply on Feb 14 |
7 |
CNMC Daye |
Clean production of high-purity copper cathode |
New |
8,700 |
400kt of high-purity cathode copper, 1.5mnt of sulfuric acid |
Go into operation on Feb 14 |
8 |
Ya'an Tongguang Copper |
Copper calendering |
New |
30 |
100kt of copper wire |
Publicity of environmental protection assessment reply on Feb 14 |
9 |
Anhui Judong Intelligent Technology |
Secondary copper project |
New |
2,000 |
50kt of secondary copper |
Publicity of environmental protection assessment acceptance on Feb 17 |
10 |
Guizhou Jinlong Metal |
Secondary copper comprehensive recycling |
Expanded |
400 |
50kt of secondary copper |
The second publicity of the environmental assessment on Feb 17 |
11 |
CMOC |
TFM mixed ore |
New |
- |
200kt of copper |
Central power center connected on Feb 17 |
12 |
Xinxiang Taihong Industry |
Copper foil lithium electrode |
New |
5 |
- |
Publicity of environmental protection assessment acceptance on Feb 18 |
13 |
Chongyi Changxin Mining |
Reconstruction and expansion of copper mining |
Expanded |
- |
60kt of copper concentrate |
Publicity of environmental protection assessment acceptance on Feb 20 |
14 |
Jiayuan Technology |
High-performance copper foil |
New |
- |
15kt of high-performance copper foil |
Go into operation on Feb 20 |
15 |
Jinchuan Copper |
High-purity active copper oxide |
- |
- |
- |
Trial production on Feb 20 |
16 |
Hailiang Group |
High-performance electrolytic copper foil |
New |
5,900 |
100kt of lithium battery copper foil |
Announcement on Feb 27 |
Data Source: Mysteel, Public Info |
Written by Edenlis Huang, huangting@mysteel.com
Edited by Paula Xu, xuzhongping@mysteel.com