Loesche has been awarded a third order for af Copper Matte mill-LM31.3 in Fangchenggang City, China, following the copper matte projects for YangGu in September 2009 and Tongling in July 2010. Up to now, Loesche says it has successfully “won all the copper matte grinding equipment in Flash Smelting Process which was the most advanced and environmental technology in world for copper smelting and has been widely accepted by Chinese.” Guangxi Jinchuan Non-Ferrous Metals belongs to the Jinchuan Group which become a top five copper smelter and biggest nickel producer in China. To be listed in Hong Kong stock market, Jinchuan is investing billion in Fangchenggang, Guangxi Province for nickel-copper production.
The first order of a Loesche copper matte mill LM 31.3 and LOMA LF 25 hot gas generator in China was successfully completed in Yanggu, Shangdong Province at the beginning of 2011. The equipment from Loesche and a Chinese subsidiary has been approved by customer. “Facing the critical competition from international enterprises, we always stick to the quality, market so as to the reliable vender in copper matte grinding field,” the company said.
The mill capacity of LM31.3 will be 100 t/h finish product with 85% passing 200 mesh, that should be sufficieent to serve the 400,000 t/y capacity of electrowon copper.
In the past few years Loesche has sold three LM 31.3,1 LM31.2 and two Loma LF 25s to handle copper containing around the world. The first one has been serving the customer since 1995 “with excellent performance in Kennecott UTAH Copper, USA.”
On the occasion of the EMC 2011 exhibition in Duesseldorf, Liang Keming, Vice President of Tongling group, Tan Zunqiu, Vice Chief Engineer of NERIN, Lu Gaoping, the Director of Jinchang smelter and refinery, Zhou Jun, the Vice President of Jinlong smelter and Chen Qiu visited Loesche’s office headquarter on 1st July 2011.