Mitsubishi Materials Corp & Freeport Indonesia’s JV PT Smelting has launched construction of USD 223 million expansion of its East Java copper smelting facility. The expansion will increase output capacity at the plant to 342,000 tonnes of copper cathode from 300,000 tonnes currently. The expansion is targeted to be completed before the end of December 2023PT Smelting processes copper concentrate produced by Freeport Indonesia, a unit of Freeport-McMoRan, from the Grasberg mine in Indonesia's Papua region. The expansion will boost input capacity at the plant to 1.3 million tonnes copper concentrate from 1 million tonnes at present
Mitsubishi Materials Corp & Freeport Indonesia’s JV PT Smelting has launched construction of USD 223 million expansion of its East Java copper smelting facility. The expansion will increase output capacity at the plant to 342,000 tonnes of copper cathode from 300,000 tonnes currently. The expansion is targeted to be completed before the end of December 2023PT Smelting processes copper concentrate produced by Freeport Indonesia, a unit of Freeport-McMoRan, from the Grasberg mine in Indonesia's Papua region. The expansion will boost input capacity at the plant to 1.3 million tonnes copper concentrate from 1 million tonnes at present
