RCC will install Chinese equipment in the new shop at Karabashmed

29.03.2012 — News

CHELYABINSK REGION.

Karabashmed, CJSC, (a member of the Russian Copper Company) intends to contract CIMM Co. Ltd, a Chinese company, for equipment for its new sulfuric acid shop and for a thickener it needs for processing of slags coming from the existing production.

The RCC Press Service has informed RusBusinessNews that both contracts will be signed by April 4, 2012 and the Chinese company will start supplying the equipment at the end of this year. The CIMM Co. Ltd. delegation headed by Zhang Xiaomin, the first deputy general director, has come to Karabashmed to discuss contract terms and conditions.

Upgrading of the sulfuric acid production is one of the top priority objectives in RCC's program of technical modernization of Karabashmed. After the new shop is put into operation, the metallurgical gas processing throughput will reach 230 thousand cubic meters per hour. It will result in complete utilization of sulfur dioxide and a 1.5 time increase in the blister copper output. The amount of sulfuric acid mist and spray through the sanitary stack of the sulfuric acid shop will not exceed the regulatory limit of 300 ppm.