A Brief Analysis of Sustainable Progress of Innovative Research &Development of Chinese Copper Processing Firms—With Japanese Furukawa Electric as a Standard

In comparison with copper processing industrial leader Furukawa Electric Co., Ltd., Chinese copper processing industry faces many shortcomings and difficulties including but not limited to outdated equipment and technologies, low degree of specialization, and unstable product quality. The review of Furukawa Electric’s development milestones reveals that Chinese copper processing industry has reached a stage in which it must rely on technological research and development (R & D) to promote sustainable productivity. Chinese copper processing firms have to invest in R & D to promote sustainable technological innovations and to improve the precisions of business practice in order to ensure the firms’ improvement.

Operational optimization of copper flotation process based on the weighted Gaussian process regression and index-oriented adaptive differential evolution algorithm

Concentrate copper grade(CCG)is one of the important production indicators of copper flotation processes,and keeping the CCG at the set value is of great significance to the economic benefit of copper flotation industrial processes.This paper addresses the fluctuation problem of CCG through an operational optimization method.Firstly,a density-based affinity propagationalgorithm is proposed so that more ideal working condition categories can be obtained for the complex raw ore properties.Next,a Bayesian network(BN)is applied to explore the relationship between the operational variables and the CCG.Based on the analysis results of BN,a weighted Gaussian process regression model is constructed to predict the CCG that a higher prediction accuracy can be obtained.To ensure the predicted CCG is close to the set value with a smaller magnitude of the operation adjustments and a smaller uncertainty of the prediction results,an index-oriented adaptive differential evolution(IOADE)algorithm is proposed,and the convergence performance of IOADE is superior to the traditional differential evolution and adaptive differential evolution methods.Finally,the effectiveness and feasibility of the proposed methods are verified by the experiments on a copper flotation industrial process.

Analysis of Copper Processing Products Production and Copper Consumption in China

China is the world’s largest producer of copper processing products as well as the world’s largest copper consumer market.In 2013,China produced more than 13.60 million tons of copper processing products,accounting for60%of the world’s total production.Since then,this proportion has expanded year by year,and will increase to about 66.7%in 2016.Meanwhile,China consumed nearly 11

Tongling Non-ferrous Copper Processing Sector——A New Profit Growth Point

Tongling Nonferrous Metals Group Holdings Co.,Ltd.(referred to as Tongling Nonferrous)was profitable as for its copper processing sector in 2015.In 2017,its achievements continued by making historic breakthroughs:Tongguan Copper Foil Company realized a YOY growth of 208.63%;Tongguan Copper Product Branch has been making

A 10 Billion-grade Base Built by the World's Largest Copper Processing Company in Jiangjin District

On May 15,the Southwestern Copper Production Base invested by Zhejiang Hailiang Co.,Ltd.,the world’s largest copper processing company,started construction in Luohuang Industrial Park,Jiangjin District.With a total investment of 3 billion yuan,the annual output value at maximum production capacity

Fabrication of superhydrophilic surface on copper substrate by electrochemical deposition and sintering process

Superhydrophilic surfaces were fabricated on copper substrates by an electrochemical deposition and sintering process. Superhydrophobic surfaces were prepared by constructing micro/nano-structure on copper substrates through an electrochemical deposition method. Conversion from superhydrophobic to superhydrophilic was obtained via a suitable sintering process. After reduction sintering, the contact angle of the superhydrophilic surfaces changed from 155° to 0°. The scanning electron microscope （SEM） images show that the morphology of superhydrophobic and superhydrophilic surfaces looks like corals and cells respectively. The chemical composition and crystal structure of these surfaces were examined using energy dispersive spectrometry （EDS） and X-ray diffraction （XRD）. The results show that the main components on superhydrophobic surfaces are Cu, Cu2O and CuO, while the superhydrophilic surfaces are composed of Cu merely. The crystal structure is more inerratic and the grain size becomes bigger after the sintering. The interracial strength of the superhydrophilic surfaces was investigated, showing that the interfacial strength between superhydrophilic layer and copper substrate is considerably high.