National Copper and Smelting is closing its Huntsville plant. The factory, which makes precision copper tubing, will lay off about 115 people, according to the Huntsville/ Madison County Chamber.

A new modernised hydrogen-ready anode furnace was launched to the market in December 2024 by Finnish industrial machinery ...

which will make the Horne smelter one of the most efficient in the world," Cindy Caouette, a spokesperson for the copper factory, said in a statement. "We are continuing our efforts to meet the ...

China's copper smelting industry is in a deep funk as an ever-growing number of furnaces jostle for limited concentrate supplies. Smelting capacity is up a quarter since 2021 and is set to rise ...

The global copper smelting market revenue was around US$ 1.45 billion in 2022 and is estimated to reach US$ 2.0 billion by 2031, growing at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 3.8% during the ...

After being crushed and ground to a fine powder, the copper inside primary sulfide ores is concentrated using chemicals before being sent to a smelter, where it is refined at high temperatures.

The Vedanta group’s copper smelter—a factory where the metal is extracted by subjecting the ore to high temperature—began operations at Thoothukudi in southern Tamil Nadu in 1996.

Near the city of Aleppo in northwest Syria, a missile strike has been reported on a factory controlled by the Hezbollah group. The attack has resulted in fatalities, according to OSINTdefender.