The operating rates of key copper rod producers using copper cathode were around 68.85% on average last week, a drop of 3.76 percentage points from a week earlier.
A number of companies said that orders dropped significantly during the week, and production and sales also fell. There were even some copper rod factories having suspended production for three days against poor orders.
The demand for copper rod produced with copper cathode can hardly see improvement.

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