Outotec delivers copper plant to China

The mining and metallurgical industries are booming in China and other East Asian countries. The region has also acquired critical importance for Finnish Outotec, a leading global provider of process solutions, technologies and services for the mining and metallurgical industries.

NIB has provided a loan to China’s Ministry of Finance for the construction of a copper production plant in China’s Shangdong province. The plant will use technology supplied by Outokumpu technology. The contract value exceeds EUR 37 million.

“The Yanggu project is very important for Outotec. Firstly, because having such a signifi cant order in the demanding Chinese market proves that our technologies have a clear competitive advantage in cost-effectiveness, energy-efficiency and environmental soundness. And secondly, the scope of supply is exceptionally large,” says Jussi Penttilä, Vice President Finance at Outotec.

Outotec’s scope of supply includes licenses, equipment, and engineering. In the first phase, the new plant will have a capacity of 200,000 tonnes of copper cathodes per year, and it is planned to expand the capacity up to 400,000 tonnes. The advanced sulphuric acid plant in Yanggu, equipped with a high sulphur dioxide processing system, will be the first of its kind in China.