en.Wedoany.com Reported - After more than a decade of development, Xinjiang Nonferrous Metals Group's Wuxin Copper has achieved leapfrog growth, from facing operational pressure in its initial production phase to surpassing 19.6 billion yuan in total industrial output value in 2025. As the first large-scale modern copper smelting enterprise in Xinjiang, Wuxin Copper, established in 2009, has focused on "copper and gold as the core, with multi-metals in parallel" as its development strategy, aiming to build a western copper-based new materials base.
After commencing production in 2013, the enterprise faced multiple challenges, including geographical and raw material difficulties, insufficient integration of processes and equipment, and a market cycle downturn. In response, the company established long-term stable raw material supply cooperation mechanisms and optimized smelting processes, gradually building a "three-high" production model characterized by "high iron-silicon content, high oxygen enrichment, and high grade." Through continuous efforts, the direct smelting recovery rate has increased year by year, the qualification rate of anode plates has stabilized at 99%, and cathode copper production capacity has risen from the designed 100,000 tons to 170,000 tons.
In the field of precious and rare metal recovery, Wuxin Copper has achieved efficient recovery of gold, silver, selenium, and other metals. By employing a "semi-hydrometallurgical smelting process," it has overcome the challenge of efficient multi-metal separation from anode slime, and now has an annual production capacity of 8 tons of gold and 120 tons of silver. Through the replacement of freezer units and optimization of electrowinning cells in the electrolytic workshop, current efficiency has been increased to over 95.5%, with the high-quality A-grade copper rate reaching 98.72%. In terms of automation upgrades in production processes, the electrolytic workshop is equipped with starting sheet stripping machines, AGV intelligent transport vehicles, and cathode copper packaging units, effectively reducing labor costs. The slag processing workshop employs a "multi-subsystem coordination + AI intelligent scheduling" system, achieving unmanned operations for slag collection, transport, and hoisting, with operational efficiency improved by 30%.
In October 2024, the enterprise invested 200 million yuan in an energy-saving and environmental protection upgrade project. After commissioning, the grade of slag tailings was controlled below 0.31%, and the copper metal recovery rate increased to over 98.5%. The acid plant adopted a "hydrogen peroxide + ozone" tail gas treatment unit to achieve ultra-low emissions. The addition of a pressure swing adsorption oxygen generation system increased the monthly output of the Ausmelt furnace to 20,000 tons. In 2025, the company's cathode copper production increased by 52.83% year-on-year, sulfuric acid production increased by 23.53% year-on-year, and it produced 64,100 tons of copper rod, with a total industrial output value of 19.618 billion yuan.
To extend the industrial chain, in July 2025, the company leased a copper rod processing production line and established Xinjiang Blue Diamond Copper Co., Ltd., with an annual production capacity of 250,000 tons of copper rod, forming an integrated industrial chain of "copper concentrate—electrolytic copper—copper rod/copper wire." On May 5 this year, Blue Diamond Copper's 30,000-ton oxygen-free copper rod production line was officially put into operation, further refining the layout for deep copper processing. Leveraging the quality advantage of 99.99% high-purity cathode copper, the enterprise is promoting the extension of its products into sectors such as power, Automotive Industry" target="_blank">new energy vehicles, and chips, while also driving the coordinated development of upstream and downstream enterprises in Xinjiang's copper rod and copper foil industries.
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