A, the main copper producers of the main products
The global visibility of the enterprise shown in Table 1, their copper processing material production in 150,000 tons or annual output value of more than 10 billion yuan.
Table 1 global visibility of copper processing enterprises
Two, the main copper producers of process technology and equipment level
1, Germany Aurubis Company
The company produces about 1 million tons of electrolytic copper and more than 1.2 million tons of copper products annually. Aurubis employs 4,700 people in 7 countries in Europe.Aurubis covers the whole industry chain, the business involves the recycling of copper scrap, the production and sale of electrolytic copper, copper processed products, including wire, profiles, cold rolled products, and special metal copper and copper alloy products. Main products: bars: wire (fiber optic cables as well as enameled wires for transformers, generators and motors); sheets and strips (production of pre-rolled sheets and strips of 2-8mm and finished sheets and strips of 0.1-3mm); profiled wires (production of profiled wires and strips with diameters of 2-15mm).
The company's main customers come from the processing of copper semi-finished products, electrical engineering, electronic and chemical industry, construction and automotive industry.
Table 2Aurubis copper business distribution
2, KMEuropaMetal (KMEuropaMetal)
In 1995 by EuropaMetalliS.p.A. (Italy), TréfimétauxS.A. (France) and KM-kabelmetalAG (Germany), headquartered in Florence, Italy, is the holding company of the SMI (SocietàMetallurgicaItaliana, founded by the Orlando family in 1886, became a public company in 1897, and is a pioneer in the world of copper and copper alloy processing industry) group (73% of the shares are held by SMI). After a series of changes, KME became a joint venture subsidiary of SMI on June 30, 2001.
The company currently has a total production capacity of more than 800,000 tons of copper fabricated materials, including around 250,000 tons of copper tubes per year, and operates 18 fabrication plants in 10 countries: the USA, Finland, Sweden, Spain, the Netherlands, China, Malaysia, Thailand, Austria and the UK. The two plants in FornacidiBarga and Osnabrück produce a wide range of architectural and industrial copper rolled products.
Currently, KME is one of the world's largest producers of copper and copper alloys, dominating the copper processing industry in Germany, France, Italy and Spain.
In the 1990s, KME entered the Asian market and invested in China to establish KME Metal Products (Dongguan) Co., Ltd. and KME Copper Tube (Changzhou) Co.
Main products: copper tube (5-135mm O.D., wall thickness of 0.5-10mm); sheet and strip (copper, brass, bronze sheet and strip); deep sea copper tube; automobile copper tube; mineral insulated cables; copper and brass rods and copper and brass wires.
3. GlobalBrassandCopper, Inc. is headquartered in East Alton, Illinois, USA, and is a holding company of KPS Capital Partners. In November 2007, it acquired its entire metals business from Olin Corporation of America for $400 million in cash.
U.S. Global Metal Products, Inc. is the number one processor and marketer of copper and copper alloy products in North America, with annual revenues of $2.1 billion in 2006, and more than 2,000 employees, with fabrication facilities in East Alton, Illinois; Montpelier and Bryan, Ohio; Waterbury, Connecticut; Missouri, Cuba, Japan and China. The company's principal operations are now organized into three major segments: the former Olin Corporation of America, the A.J. Oster Group of Companies and ChasebrassandCopperLLC.
Main products: copper sheet and strip (10100-77000 U.S. grades, thickness of 0.064-6.35mm, length of 6.4-940mm copper sheet and strip); high-precision copper foil (capable of producing 12-micron electronic copper foil); copper tubes (diameter of 12.7-76.2mm, wall thickness of 0.46-3.17mm); copper rods (diameter of 3.175-100mm); copper bars (diameter of 3.175-100mm); copper tubes (diameter of 3.175-100mm); copper rods (diameter of 3.175-100mm); and copper bars (diameter of 3.175-100mm). 3.175-100mm round bars and 6.35-50mm square bars).
Table 3 U.S. Global Metal Products Co., Ltd. under the acquisition of the former U.S. Olin Company's divisions
4, Germany Wieland (Wieland-WerkeAG)
Wieland is headquartered in Germany, the main products include copper sheet and strip, copper tubes and pipes, copper rods, profiles and profiles, copper products, etc., and already has 43 production departments, service centers and subsidiaries located in all parts of the world. The company has 43 production departments, service centers and subsidiaries around the world. Annual sales of about 1.2 billion euros, the number of employees of about 5,600 people, the number of products sold about 450,000 metric tons.
According to the company's information, the process of copper sheet and strip products is not the popular continuous casting and rolling process, but the use of semi-continuous casting - hot rolling and billet opening method, that is, the copper raw material is first melted and made into a 20-ton slab, and then the slab will be heated to 600-1,000 ℃ for hot rolling, hot rolling of copper plate thickness of 10-15mm, and then cold rolling and annealing process, and eventually the After hot rolling, the thickness of copper plate is 10-15mm, and then cold rolling and annealing process is carried out to reach the thickness requirement of copper strip, which is usually called semi-continuous casting process. The company's copper sheet and strip products are mainly used in the lead frame industry, communications and automotive industry, naval industry and transformer industry.
Copper tube products process using the extrusion method, the technology is currently the world's production of copper tube more advanced technology, its final product performance is also better than the rolling method of production of copper tube. According to the company's information, the first step in the production of copper tubes is to heat the copper ingot to 950 ℃, extrusion molding, and then the subsequent drawing process, after drawing according to customer requirements for further processing, and finally cut off or coiled to the finished product. The company's copper tube products are mainly used in the air conditioning and refrigeration industry, heat exchange tubes and water pipes.
Copper and copper alloy rods are mainly produced by continuous casting or extrusion method, in which the ingot is first heated to 600-1000°C for subsequent ingot casting, after which different technologies are selected for production according to different requirements of customers.
5, Korea Toyama Corporation
Korea Toyama Co., Ltd. was founded in 1968, is Korea's largest copper and copper alloy producers, but also one of the world's leading copper and copper alloy producers. In Korea, Toyama has three large-scale production plants, as well as factories and sales organizations in the United States, Thailand, Japan, Hong Kong, China, Dongguan and Shanghai, Guangdong Province, and offices in Taiwan and Malaysia to meet a wide range of needs worldwide.
Fungshan's products mainly include copper and copper alloy strips, copper tubes, copper rods, coin billets, stainless steel strips and strips, and titanium alloy tubes for industrial use, etc. In addition to occupying more than 60% of the copper market in South Korea, the rest of the products are exported to the U.S.A., Japan, Europe, Australia, China, as well as to Southeast Asia, such as Hong Kong, Taiwan, Thailand, Malaysia, and other regions. The main varieties of plates and strips are pure copper, brass, white copper, phosphor bronze and aluminum bronze.
Table 4 Fengshan's copper products in the Korean market share (including imports)
Fengshan's global production capacity of copper processed materials is 470,000 tons/year, of which 300,000 tons/year is produced in Korea, and the company has factories in the U.S., Thailand, and China.
Main products: copper tubes; phosphor bronze strips, brass strips; copper rods; leadframes; white copper strips.
The three major production bases of Toyama in Korea
(1)Onsan Brass Production Base
The Onsan base was established in 1980 and is located in Onsan-eup, Ulju-gun, Ulsan, Korea, with a workforce of 1,203 employees, and its main products include copper and copper alloy sheets and strips, rods and wires, leadframe materials, tinned strips and minted blank products. strips and minted blank products, etc. Wensan production base is the largest base for copper products in Fungsan, with an annual copper production capacity of 280,000 tons/year, using horizontal continuous casting and semi-continuous casting, followed by large tonnage (up to 6 tons) hot rolling and other processes, which allows the production of sheet and strip products with a maximum width of up to 630mm and a minimum thickness of 0.03mm (thickness tolerance of 0.002mm).
(2) Angang Production Base
The production base is one of the most advanced arms factories in the world, with 1,835 employees. Located in Gyeongju, South Korea, Angang-eup has an independent scientific research institute, which is entrusted by the South Korean government to research and develop new hi-tech weapons, and so far it has developed a series of hi-tech weapons of great strategic significance. So far, the facility has developed a series of high-tech weapons of great strategic importance, contributing greatly to South Korea's national defense. The Angang production site has recently built a new factory to produce components for mobile equipment, such as tank wheels. The site's current products include a complete line of small military products, medium and large weapons and parts.
(3) Bupyung (Dongare) site
Located in Busan, South Korea, this site employs 435 people and produces a range of small arms and more than 100 sporting and hunting weapons.The Dongare site occupies an area of 1.65 million square meters.
6, Japan's Kobe Steel (KOBELCO)
Japan's Kobe Steel (KOBELCO) main products are: oxygen-free copper belt, copper tube; copper belt, copper tube, brass belt, brass tube; tin phosphor bronze plate and strip; semiconductor lead frame materials; high conductivity and adiabatic copper plate and strip.
7, China's Zhejiang Jintian Copper Group Co.
Ningbo Jintian Copper (Group) Co., Ltd. was founded in October 1986, and has developed into a large-scale enterprise group covering an area of more than 2,000 acres, with more than 5,000 employees and total assets of more than 5 billion yuan. It is the leading enterprise in China's copper processing industry and the largest recycled copper processing and utilization enterprise in China.
Jintian Group "large tonnage electric furnace melting - submerged liquid discharge - multi-stream multi-head horizontal continuous casting bar technology and equipment" project, the direct use of copper chalcopyrite through the horizontal continuous casting, large-scale production of brass rods, the structure of the equipment has originality and practicability, the production technology is in the world's leading level. "The research and industrialization of horizontal continuous casting of waste brass directly producing hollow profiles" developed a complete set of melt purification and refining integrated process technology and equipment, the product minimum aperture 6mm, the thinnest wall thickness of 3mm.
The company's industry involves copper processing and smelting, high-tech materials, processing and trading, real estate and other fields, the main products Our main products include standard copper cathode, oxygen-free copper wire, various copper wires, copper rods, copper plates, copper strips, copper tubes, enameled wires, valves, water meters, magnetic materials, etc. The output of our products is among the forefront of the industry, and they are sold well in more than 20 provinces and cities in China and exported to more than 30 countries and regions.
8, China Jinlong Precision Copper Tube Group Co.
Jinlong Copper Tube Group was established on May 8, 1987, through Xinxiang Oxygen-free Copper General Factory, Kaihong Group, Henan Jinlong Precision Copper Tube Co.
Golden Dragon Group is the leading enterprise of producing precision copper tubes in China, the precision copper tubes for air-conditioning and refrigeration account for 30% of the world's total amount, is the world's largest manufacturer of precision copper tubes and the most powerful scientific research, development and innovation bases, in 2014, realized a sales income of more than 35 billion yuan, ranked 346th among China's top 500 Chinese enterprises, and 174th among China's top 500 manufacturing industries.
Independent innovation and development of three-roll planetary rolling mill, plate drawing machine, finishing machine and other major equipment and complete sets of equipment, to achieve product localization and independent design capability of major equipment. Own technology built 21 continuous casting and rolling method of short process copper tube production line.
Golden Dragon Group has obtained 108 national patents and declared more than ten international patents, and its design and production capacity in copper pipe spinning equipment is first-class both domestically and internationally. And on December 28, 2017, it officially signed a strategic reorganization cooperation agreement with Wanzhou District Government and put into production the first phase of Golden Dragon Copper Tube Project. The project covers an area of more than 100 acres, with a total project investment of 1.38 billion yuan,**** building three precision copper tube production lines. Production line equipment from Finland, Italy, the United States, Japan and other famous equipment manufacturers, coupled with the Golden Dragon Group's patented technology, after completion will become the world's most advanced industry "casting and rolling method" copper tube production line.
Golden Dragon Group, as the world's largest manufacturer of precision copper tubes, has a series of products such as high-precision glossy copper tubes, high-efficiency copper tubes with internal threads, high-efficiency copper tubes with external fins, copper cladding tubes, copper alloy tubes, copper capillary tubes, and copper tube assemblies, which are used in air-conditioning and refrigeration, water supply for buildings, seawater desalination, marine industry, shipbuilding, medical facilities, solar energy utilization, heat dissipation of computers, mobile communications, electronic instrumentation, and electromagnetic microwave technology. Electronic instrumentation and electromagnetic microwave technology and other fields. While doing a good job in copper tubes, Golden Dragon Group has also entered into the fields of high-precision copper sheet and strip, precision aluminum tubes for refrigeration, high-precision micro-channel aluminum flat tubes and parallel-flow type and other high-efficiency energy-saving air conditioning heat exchangers, automobile air conditioning assembly, etc. With Xinxiang, Yuanyang and other manufacturing companies and light alloy research institutes, the refrigeration aluminum products have become the highlight of the Golden Dragon's development in the field of refrigeration in the future.
9, China's Zhejiang Hailiang Copper Group
Hailiang shares since its inception in 2001, has been committed to the research and development of high-grade copper products, production, sales and service, is one of the world's leading copper processing enterprises, China's largest exporter of copper tubes, the largest producer of precision copper rods. The comprehensive strength of the enterprise now ranks 110th among the "Top 500 Chinese Enterprises", 18th among the "Top 500 Chinese Private Enterprises", and 3rd among the "Top 100 Enterprises in Zhejiang Province".
Hailiang's products can be divided into two series: copper pipes and copper rods, including nearly 100 grades and thousands of specifications, which are widely used in air-conditioning and refrigerator refrigeration, construction plumbing, seawater desalination, equipment manufacturing, automotive industry, electronic information, transportation, hardware and machinery, electric power and other industries. In recent years, we have been launching high-end products such as internal threaded copper tube and high-grade copper alloy tube, which optimize the product structure of the company day by day. From a small private enterprise, it has grown steadily into an internationalized large-scale comprehensive enterprise group with copper processing as its base industry and a multi-industry layout of non-ferrous material intellectual manufacturing, education business, health industry (eco-agriculture, medical treatment, pension), etc., with four listed companies both at home and abroad, more than 14,000 employees, and a total asset of more than 70 billion yuan.
On December 6, 2017, Hailiang Group Copper Southwest Production Base Project was officially signed into Jiangjin Luohuan Industrial Park. It is reported that the project has a total investment of 3 billion yuan, covers an area of 230 acres, and builds a copper manufacturing project with an annual output of 90,000 tons of copper tubes for air-conditioning and refrigeration and 60,000 tons of copper rows (3 copper tube production lines for refrigeration with a capacity of 30,000 tons each are planned; 60,000 tons of copper rows and deep processing).