The Copper Plant is part of the Transpolar Branch of the Norilsky Nickel Mining and Metallurgical Company. It comprises five shops: drying, smelting, copper electrolysis, metallurgical and a support shop. The plant produces cathode copper as well as sulfur and sulfuric acid extracted from furnace emissions. The plant supplies sulfuric acid to all the Transpolar branch enterprises. Precious and rare metals are byproducts.
The heart of the plant is the smelting shop. In the early 1970s it pioneered a new method for smelting in a liquid bath developed by professor A.Vanyukov of the Moscow Steel and Alloys Institute. The first smelting at a pilot smelting on June 3, 1977 ushered in a new era in the history of non-ferrous metallurgy in this country and in the world.
The enterprise has 2,147 employees whose average wage is about 60,000 roubles.
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