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• Aurubis has successfully completed the largest maintenance shutdown in its history at the Hamburg site.
• In addition to a boiler overhaul, extensive maintenance measures were carried out that would not normally be possible due to the continuous operation.
• The aim was to ensure the availability of the plant and increase occupational safety within the smelter. 

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• Multimetal producer Aurubis celebrated the go-live of the ASPA plant at its site in Beerse (Belgium).
• Fully developed in-house, this new state-of-the-art hydrometallurgical process, ASPA, is another prime example of Aurubis’ innovative strength.

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• Aurubis Lünen commissioned the modernised electrolysis plant on Thursday, 6 June 2024.
• The improved plant will provide around 10 % more production capacity and thus produce up to 210,000 tonnes of copper cathodes per year. 

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• Aurubis has successfully commissioned a new facility at its Lünen plant that sets new standards in the recycling industry.
• The sample preparation of input materials such as electronic scrap is now fully automated and utilises state-of-the-art robotics.
• The innovative system efficiently and safely delivers reliable samples for the laboratories within just one hour during the sample preparation process.

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‘What makes Aurubis unique?’ In this video, Aurubis employees talk about what they think makes Aurubis unique as an employer. 

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• Aurubis invested around € 640 million to build the first secondary smelter for complex recycling material in North America.
• Commissioning of the secondary smelter is planned for the second half of 2024.
• An expansion of the plant is already under construction, meaning that Aurubis Richmond will process a total of 180,000 tonnes of complex recycling materials such as printed circuit boards and copper cables per year from 2026.  

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• Battery recycling is becoming increasingly important due to the expansion of e-mobility and the rapidly increasing demand for lithium-ion batteries and raw materials for their production.
• Since March 2022, a pilot plant has been in operation at the Hamburg site to extract valuable metals such as lithium, nickel, cobalt, manganese and graphite from the so-called black mass with the highest yields.

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