Wang tells PV Tech Premium that copper offers a ‘a compelling combination’ of traits to replace silver. Image: AIKO. This Premium article, which was one of the most read Premium articles in 2025, has ...

The solar industry has dragged its heels on the issue of silver-dependence for cell metallization, but China’s Jiangsu Xianghuan Technology (JXTC) is moving into commercial production with a copper ...

The copper electrorefining process is a well‐established method for producing high-purity copper from impure anodes by utilising electrochemical principles. In this process, copper dissolves at the ...

The ramp-up of the Kamoa-Kakula copper smelter will continue throughout 2026, with completion expected towards year-end.

The smelter produced the first anodes in December 2025, approximately five weeks after the start of its heat-up process.

A Colorado-based company has received a contract to qualify its copper additive manufacturing process for hypersonic flight. America Makes, an Ohio-based firm, will provide Ursa Major $4 million for ...

The International Copper Study Group says copper production increased in the first half of 2025, and London-based Earth-i says the trend continues. Earth-i, in a late September press release, says ...

At a laboratory in Newark, New Jersey, a gray liquid swirls vigorously inside a reactor the size of a small watermelon. Here, scientists with the mining technology startup Still Bright are using a ...