Resources CirculationMaterials Business Area

Through its Resource Circulation business, the Company efficiently recovers and recycles valuable metals from discarded home appliances and automobile products. In response to growing concerns regarding environmental conservation and economic security, the Company is also promoting initiatives globally to establish secondary smelting and "resource circulation loops."

In the Resource Circulation business, the Company aims to transform itself into a company committed to "creating the future through resource circulation." Amid increasing challenges in securing resources, the Company is expanding this business with the aim of realizing a circular economy through the effective use of resources accumulated in urban areas. Currently, the Company is working toward the realization of zero‑waste secondary smelting using only secondary raw materials such as E‑Scrap. In parallel, the Company is advancing the development of resource circulation loops, under which used products entrusted by various manufacturers are dismantled and sorted at automobile and home appliance recycling plants in which the Company has an ownership interest to recover valuable resources, which are then returned to the respective manufacturers either as final materials produced at copper smelters or as materials processed at the Company's Copper & Copper Alloy Products business sites.