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New international agreements based on environmental concerns tend to view energy as an expensive commodity. The Outokumpu UPCAST® process a net shape casting process for the production of copper wire rod represents a suitable alternative to ever rising energy costs. The copper wire rod is cast directly into the rod size required for further processing, i.e. from an 8-mm to a 30-mm diameter, so heavy breakdown and/or rolling processes are not needed.
New international agreements based on environmental concerns tend to view energy as an expensive commodity. The Outokumpu UPCAST® process a net shape casting process for the production of copper wire rod represents a suitable alternative to ever rising energy costs. The copper wire rod is cast directly into the rod size required for further processing, i.e. from an 8-mm to a 30-mm diameter, so heavy breakdown and/or rolling processes are not needed.
| Author(s) | Juan Carlos Bodington and Lauri Eklin, Outokumpu Castform Oy, Finland; and Jari Ojanen, Siemens Oy, Finland. |
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| Publication/Event/Pages | Paper presented at WAI International Technical Conference, Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Paper published in Wire Journal International, Sept. 2003, pg. 82. |
| Year | 2002 |
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