Copper Strip Industry Sees 7.52% Year-on-Year Growth Amid Demand Recovery

Published: Sep 8, 2026 10:09

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As September begins, the tail end of the traditional off-season brings expectations of demand picking up. SMM forecasts the comprehensive operating rate of the copper strip industry at 73.54%, up 7.52 percentage points year-on-year. Purple copper strip, underpinned by its existing order backlog, has sufficient production scheduling; brass strip and bronze strip see marginal demand improvement but remain constrained by tight supply of scrap copper raw materials, limiting the upside in production scheduling. Rigid demand from computing power, energy storage, new energy, transformers, and integrated circuits provides the floor of support.

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