Introduction to Copper Rod Production Equipment

Copper rod is a crucial raw material for electrical cables, power equipment, and copper product manufacturing. The primary production methods include: Continuous Casting and Rolling (CCR), Dip Forming, Upward Continuous Casting. Each process corresponds to specific production equipment, as detailed below:
Rolling Mill / Rolling Machine
Rolling mill is a machine that rolls metal wire ingots into rods or profiles of specified shapes and dimensions.
Continuous Casting and Rolling Line
Continuous casting and rolling line is a kind of equipment that continuously melts, casts, rolls, and coils electrolytic copper or aluminum blocks/ingots to produce rods.
Semi-Continuous Casting Machine
Semi-continuous casting machine is a machine that continuously pours molten metal into a mold to cast ingots of a fixed length, which are then removed for the next casting cycle.
Rotary Casting Machine
Rotary casting machine is a rotating disc machine equipped with multiple copper ingot molds. As it turns, molten copper is sequentially poured into each mold to produce copper wire ingots.
Dip Forming System
Dip forming system is also known as Dip Coating Forming System, it uses a dipping process to solidify molten copper onto a core copper rod, which is then hot-rolled into bright oxygen-free copper rods of specified dimensions.
Upward Continuous Casting System
Upward continuous casting system is a kind of equipment that utilizes vacuum suction to draw molten copper or copper alloys upward into a crystallizer, where it solidifies into rods, which are then continuously extracted.
Wire Flattening and Profiling Machine
Wire flattening and profiling machine is also called Wire Flattening and Shaping Machine, this equipment continuously rolls and draws metal wire rods to produce flat or other specially shaped wires.
Rod Shaving Machine
Rod shaving machine is a machine that removes surface defects and oxide layers from rolled rods using dies to obtain smooth, high-quality rods.