GEORGIA Aurubis AG plans to build an electronic scrap recycling and copper smelter on a 150-acre site at Augusta Corporate Park in Augusta. Project scope includes design and construction of building space and equipment foundations; installation of a smelter, a fines injector, a combustion chamber, an air quench tower, an active-carbon injection system, a wet scrubber and a top-blown rotary converter; and purchase and installation of scrap receiving, sorting and handling equipment, and overhead cranes. The plant will process 90,000 metric tons of circuit boards, copper cable and other e-scrap per year to produce 35,000 metric tons of blister copper per year. SMS group GmbH has been selected to provide process technology and major equipment for the project. Construction is set to begin in mid-2022. The estimated EPC cost is $347 million. Aurubis AG, Hovestrasse SO, Hamburg, Germany. IR#GA211107.
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