Copper scrap is a valuable secondary raw material that plays a critical role in the copper industry’s circular economy. It serves as a cost-effective and energy-efficient alternative to primary copper mining, significantly reducing production costs and environmental impact.
About COPPER SCRAP
i. Low-grade scrap (<90% Cu): Includes mixed industrial waste, shredded materials, and residues, which require smelting and refining in furnaces before further processing.
ii. Medium-grade scrap (90–96% Cu): Typically consists of clean but unsorted copper materials, suitable for melting and casting into anodes for electrolytic refining.
High-grade scrap (>96% Cu): Includes clean copper wire, busbar offcuts, and tube scrap, which can be directly fed into CCR lines or upcasting systems to produce high-quality copper rod with minimal refining.
– Scrap → Melting → Anode Casting → Electrolysis → Copper Cathode (≥99.97%)
By utilizing copper scrap, manufacturers not only reduce raw material costs and energy consumption but also achieve up to 95% energy savings compared to primary copper production from ores. This makes scrap processing an economically and environmentally sustainable choice for the copper industry.
