Projects
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Industry 4.0: Increasing throughput in manufacturing using integrated technology
Based in the US, our client is a leading North American specialty paint manufacturer. In 2020, our client was in the process of conducting a broad review of their production processes across a number of plants. In conjunction with that review, they were looking to get a clearer understanding of a specific batch manufacturing process in terms of throughput, speed, and capacity.
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Driving tankhouse operation gains with cathode repair
Headquartered in Hamburg, Germany, Aurubis is a leading worldwide provider of non-ferrous metals. As one of Europe’s largest copper producers, The Aurubis Group produces more than 1 million tonnes of marketable copper cathodes each year. In 2019, Aurubis decided to improve the cathode repair quality in its copper operations.
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Managing the impact of COVID-19 with remote commissioning of a robotic Cathode Stripping Machine
Located in Peru, Marcobre’s Mina Justa is a new copper mine development producing high purity electrolytic copper cathodes. With production starting in 2021, the cathode stripping machine project is projected to produce 160,000 tons per annum of copper contained in cathodes and concentrates.
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Australian copper refinery getting state-of-the-art overhaul with EPCM ingenuity
Our team at EPCM was faced with a unique challenge when contracted to fully modernize a decades-old Australian copper refinery. Our task was to equip the BHP Olympic Dam – considered to be the world’s fourth largest copper resource – with the latest technologies and safety measures, but without expanding the footprint of the existing site.