Aurubis – Metals for progress

With their metals, they create the foundation for technologies of the future. Being smart and connected doesn’t work without metals. Whether renewable energies, electric vehicles, digitalization, or urbanization, the demand for metals will continue to rise. For more than 150 years, Aurubis has produced copper and other metals that are crucial for modernization and for the ongoing development of their lives over the next decades. As a result, the company considers itself a real multimetal provider.

High-level metallurgy

Thanks to their metallurgical know-how, state-of-the-art facilities, and groundbreaking environmental standards within their industry, Aurubis is a leading global copper recycler and provider of non-ferrous metals. Their main area of expertise is the processing and optimal utilization of complex concentrates and recycling raw materials to produce metals of the highest purity.

In addition to their main metal, copper, these include precious metals like gold, silver, and platinum group metals, but also metals such as lead, nickel, tin, zinc, and selenium.

They produce more than 1 million t of copper cathodes with 99.99 % purity in their European smelter network each year. The cathodes can be sold on the metal exchanges, though they process some of them into a variety of intermediate products made of copper and copper alloys as well. These products include continuous cast wire rod, shapes, profiles, and flat rolled products. Additional by-products such as sulfuric acid, iron silicate, and synthetic minerals round off the product portfolio.