The Copper-Based New Materials Project of Tongling Nonferrous Metals Group's Jinxin Copper Branch Commenced Production.

On March 26, the copper-based new materials project of Jinxin Copper, a subsidiary of Tongling Nonferrous Metals Group, held a production commencement (start production) ceremony. The commissioning of this project will further consolidate Tongling Nonferrous Metals Group's leading position in the industry, provide industrial support for Anhui province in building the "Three Bases and One Zone," and hold significant strategic importance for further enhancing the modernization level of the copper-based new materials industry and ensuring the resilience and security of China's copper industry chain and supply chain.

The project commenced construction in December 2022 and, after concerted efforts and debugging, has now been successfully completed and put into production. This marks another successful practice by Tongling Nonferrous Metals Group in continuously implementing actions to improve quality, expand volume, and increase efficiency, using advanced technologies to transform and upgrade traditional industries, adjust and optimize the industrial structure, and accelerate high-quality development.

The project is anchored in the development direction of high-end, intelligent, and green transformation, aiming to build a "boutique and model project in the global copper industry." It adheres to high-end leadership, optimizes process flows, adopts the most advanced manufacturing technologies in the industry, and constructs main process projects such as smelting, electrolysis, and copper semis processing, as well as supporting projects for environmental protection and power. It has an annual production capacity of 500,000 mt of high-end copper semis, along with by-products such as gold and silver. It insists on intelligent-driven development, comprehensively promoting mechanization to replace labor, automation to reduce labor, and intelligence to minimize labor, fully applying the latest technological achievements such as big data, 5G, and artificial intelligence, and building "1 smart center, 1 industrial internet platform, and N smart applications," creating "lights-out workshops" and "low-labor workshops." It persists in green transformation, synergistically promoting carbon reduction, pollution reduction, green expansion, and growth, using advanced technologies like HRS to transform the company's technical equipment, strengthening comprehensive resource utilization, and enhancing green development levels.

Xu Zhongjun, manager of Jinxin Copper, stated that after the project is put into production, the investment budget per mt of copper and the physical labor productivity will increase by 30% compared to the industry peers; the energy efficiency per unit product will surpass the benchmark level, reaching international advanced standards, achieving optimal cost and technical-economic indicators, and further enhancing the project's production efficiency and resource utilization rate, strongly promoting the company's high-quality development.

Copper is a key foundational material for developing new quality productive forces, with broad development prospects. In the next step, Tongling Nonferrous Metals Group will continue to advance the expansion project of the Mirador copper mine and other upstream resource developments, further consolidating the entire industry chain advantage of "mine-smelting-copper-based new materials," setting a benchmark for the high-quality development of the global copper industry.

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