Yesterday, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Industry and Trade of Tatarstan Albert Karimov visited the Sverdlovsk Region as part of a working visit, where he had meetings with Deputy Governor of the Sverdlovsk Region Azat Salikhov and Minister of Industry and Science of the Sverdlovsk Region Sergei Perestoronin. In addition, Minister Karimov met with Director General of the Ural Mining and Metallurgical Company Andrey Kozitsyn and the management of Uralelectromed, and also visited the Museum of Military Equipment.
The Ural Mining and Metallurgical Company (UMMC) is one of the largest producers of cathode copper, providing about 40% of Russian production. In addition to copper cathodes, UMMC produces copper wire rod, copper powders and products made from them, selenium, tellurium, copper sulphate, nickel sulphate, silver and gold ingots, and a concentrate of platinum group metals. The non-ferrous metallurgy division of the Ural Mining and Metallurgical Company includes 7 enterprises located in the Sverdlovsk, Chelyabinsk, and Orenburg regions.
Uralelectromed is a branch of the UMMC, which produces cathodes using basic and ISA-process technologies. In 2018, they put into operation the second stage of a new copper electrolysis workshop using an ISA-process technology with a rated capacity of 160,000 tonnes of cathode copper per year. In terms of the technology used, equipping, mechanisation and automation, working conditions, the new workshop meets the newest international standards.