Jiangxi Copper Achieves Milestone: Nation's First Horizontal Swing Refining Furnace for Copper Anode Production

Published: May 29, 2025 08:13

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Recently, the 50,000 mt secondary copper smelting project in Shandong Jinxin, undertaken by Jiangxi Copper Corporation (Guixi) Metallurgical and Chemical Engineering Co., Ltd., achieved a significant milestone—the nation's first horizontal swing refining furnace for copper anode production successfully yielded its first batch of anode plates. This innovative achievement, characterized by its "efficient, intelligent, and environmentally protective" process, has set a new benchmark for the industry. As a comprehensive process output equipment for device manufacturing and production services, the project accomplished a full-process system upgrade: from dismantling the old reverberatory furnace and civil construction to furnace body fabrication, installation, and customized refractory material laying; from secondary combustion chamber integration and intelligent control system debugging to the final upgrade of the disc casting machine and seamless integration of the full set of pyrometallurgical equipment and processes. The metallurgical and chemical engineering team overcame numerous challenges to successfully develop this groundbreaking refining furnace with industry-leading significance.

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