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China’s Energy Transformers

Copper Weekly Brief — Week Ending 24 April 2026

Copper stayed elevated and volatile this week as geopolitical risk, tight concentrate conditions and policy uncertainty continued to support prices. The market is still being driven as much by supply…

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Weekly Copper Brief – 17 April 2026

Geopolitics are pushing up costs, but the clean energy transition and everyday demand for electricity and transport are keeping copper in strong demand worldwide.   Market overview Copper remains in…

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OK Tedi – Our Mine , Our Pride, Our Future

  Ok Tedi Mining Limited (Ok Tedi) is one of Papua New Guinea’s great copper–gold success stories – a 100 percent nationally owned operation that has been delivering value to…

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Copper Weekly Brief – 10th April 2026

Market overview: high, volatile, policy‑sensitive Copper remains in a high‑price, high‑volatility regime into the week ending 10 April 2026, with the Iran war amplifying energy‑cost and confidence shocks rather than…

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May 16, 2018 · General

China is trialling replacing old transformers with energy efficient models.

ICA China is working with a range of government agencies and companies to introduce more energy efficient transformers-also known as a “higher energy density transformer”-as old ones age.

A trial case study with the local government in Zhenjiang city to replace ageing transformers and procurement at new projects with the “higher energy density transformer” has now been completed .

The “higher energy density transformer” is smaller, has improved higher temperature resistance as well higher energy efficiency and can be used in both industry & building construction to replace Al cast resin dry-typed DTs.

The Zhenjiang trial caps a year long project in China with ICA China partners like CEEG & DuPont that’s included a local end users’ survey, seminars, new technology development and pilot project planning.

Following the success of the Zhenjiang trial, ICA China plans to work closely with policy influencers like power utilities & electricity designers from different regions to participate in the program, and continuously to promote the “higher energy density transformer promotion” to secure copper share in transformer market.

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Copper Weekly Brief — Week Ending 24 April 2026

Copper stayed elevated and volatile this week as geopolitical risk, tight concentrate conditions and policy uncertainty continued to support prices.…

Read More

Weekly Copper Brief – 17 April 2026

Geopolitics are pushing up costs, but the clean energy transition and everyday demand for electricity and transport are keeping copper…

Read More

OK Tedi – Our Mine , Our Pride, Our Future

  Ok Tedi Mining Limited (Ok Tedi) is one of Papua New Guinea’s great copper–gold success stories – a 100…

Read More

Copper Weekly Brief – 10th April 2026

Market overview: high, volatile, policy‑sensitive Copper remains in a high‑price, high‑volatility regime into the week ending 10 April 2026, with…

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