The operating rate for secondary copper rod was 20.42% in December 2025, higher than the expected 19.61%, but down 3.42 percentage points MoM and 15.92 percentage points YoY. The secondary copper rod ...
Market participants reckon SDI’s new copper wire rod mill in Indiana, which will use a grade of copper scrap popular in China as its raw material, will put it in direct competition with the Far East ...