The average operating rate of key copper rod producers using copper cathode was around 70.45% last week, a drop of 6.2 percentage points from the previous week. A number of those companies said that orders dropped significantly during the week, and production slowed down.
Downstream purchasing weakened sharply. In addition, the price spread between copper rod produced with copper cathode and with copper scrap remained above 1,000 yuan/mt and looks set to expand further. The advantage of copper rod produced with copper scrap impacted the consumption of copper rod produced with copper cathode.

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