(12/03/2015) According to the Copper Alliance, this means that 35% of global copper demand is met through the already recycled metal. One of the characteristics of copper is its long service life. Since the year 1900, is estimated to have been produced 550 million tons of copper and about two-thirds of this amount are still in productive use. The materials most produced with recycled copper are electric cables, motors, computers, plumbing facilities, calefações, valves and appliances.

Paranapanema is the largest copper scrap operator in Brazil, recycling annually about 70 thousand tons of metal for reuse. The company is the only one in Brazil that can transform scrap copper superpuro again through the electrolysis process, present in Dias d’Ávila.

In addition to environmentally friendly, recycling scrap is also cheaper in the production of new copper. Thinking about this potential in 2015, Paranapanema invested in two complete lines of scrap. In his Utinga unit for mixed scrap, honey and chips; and at the Bahia unit in Dias D’Ávila, with mixed scrap, refining and electrolysis.

Paranapanema is Brazil’s largest copper producer, with operations in smelting and primary copper refining and semi-manufactured copper and its alloys. The company produces high-purity copper (99.99%) and the merger and higher refining and modern guarantees quality and performance of products in various applications.

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