Domestic Copper Cathode Rod Firms See Declines in Both Finished Product and Raw Material Inventories WoW

Published: Dec 12, 2025 15:29

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Major domestic copper cathode rod enterprises strictly controlled finished product inventories this week (December 5-December 11), resulting in a WoW decrease of 5.14 percentage points in finished product inventories, recorded at 69,250 mt. High copper prices suppressed raw material procurement sentiment among copper cathode rod enterprises, with raw material inventories down 2.57 percentage points WoW, recorded at 26,500 mt.

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