MIIT Solicits Opinions on Standard Conditions for Copper Smelting Industry

The Department of Raw Material Industry of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology ("MIIT") has recently issued the Standard Conditions for Copper Smelting Industry (Draft for Comment) (the "Draft for Comment") to seek public comments by March 24, 2019.

As a guiding document that spurs technical progress and regulated development within the industry, instead of a compulsory document used as the precondition for an administrative approval, the Draft for Comment applies to copper smelting enterprises that have been built and started smelting copper from copper concentrates and cupriferous secondary resources as raw materials, and touches upon eight aspects, including "overall arrangements of enterprises and their production scale", "quality, techniques and equipment" and "energy consumption". The Draft for Comment states that, an enterprise smelting copper from copper concentrates must have the annual capacity to smelt a single series of 100,000 tonnes or above, and the production scale of an enterprise smelting copper from cupriferous secondary resources as the raw materials shall not be lower than 50,000 tonnes per annum. Furthermore, the Draft for Comment requires that waste heat from exhaust gas, vapor, water, slags and products during the technical process shall be properly used either directly or indirectly.



(Source: http://www.miit.gov.cn/n1146285/n1146352/n3054355/n3057569/n3057572/c6653165/content.html)

Note: The link to the Chinese official website of the document is for your reference.