Türkiye's only factory producing cathode copper from ore

Samsun Smelter and Electrolysis Plant, the only plant in Türkiye that can produce from ore to the end product, produces cathode copper with 99.99% purity. With an annual production capacity of 70,000 tons of cathode copper, the plant contributes $750 million every year to reducing the country’s current account deficit. In 2004, the plant was completely renovated after it started operating under the umbrella of Cengiz Holding, increasing its productivity every year thanks to R&D efforts.

The smelter plant performing anode casting, sulfuric acid, concentrator, electrolysis and fertilizer processes has a workforce of 918 people. The facility, which is fully integrated with our natural resource processing plants in other cities of the country, converts the sulfuric acid generated in production processes into fertilizer. The plant currently has an annual production capacity of 600,000 tons of ammonium sulfate fertilizer, and when the ongoing fertilizer plant investment is completed, Eti Bakır's total fertilizer production capacity will increase to 1,500,000 tons per year.  

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Working to bring all the underground ores to the society, the plant is at the same time a sponsor to the İkiztepe Archaeological Excavations in Bafra.