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Copper rod buyers are wire drawers, cable makers, magnet wire and transformer makers, and traders who supply them, with strong demand in Africa, the Middle East and South Asia. They buy 8 mm rod on LME plus a premium and test it for conductivity and surface quality. On Copper Supply you can post a free selling offer, and members who buy rod are told within minutes.
No live copper rod buying requests right now. Post yours and members who trade copper rod are emailed within minutes.
Post it freeMany cable makers in Africa, the Middle East and South Asia have no rod mill and import rod, for example in Nigeria, Kenya, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Pakistan and Bangladesh.
Buyers test rod themselves. Low conductivity or poor surface leads to claims or rejection.
The price is usually set on the LME average for an agreed period plus a premium. Agree the period in writing. See payment terms that close.
Post a selling offer with the mill, grade, standard, coil weight, monthly tonnage and incoterm. You can price as LME + US$/t, LME ± %, a fixed price, or open to offers. Listings are checked for fraud signs and stay live 90 days. Buyers ask for an introduction and you choose who to deal with. Copper Supply takes no commission and never holds trade money.
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Copper rod, also called wire rod or drawing stock, is copper cast and rolled from cathode into long coils, usually 8 mm thick. Wire and cable makers draw it into finer wire.
As the LME price plus a premium in US$ per tonne. The premium covers the cathode premium, the cost of making rod, packing and freight. Oxygen-free rod usually costs more than ETP rod.
ETP (electrolytic tough pitch) rod contains a small, controlled amount of oxygen and is used for most wire and cable. Oxygen-free rod has 10 ppm oxygen or less and is used where higher purity or better performance in welding or fine drawing is needed.
Cable makers, wire drawers, magnet wire and transformer makers, and traders. Many cable makers in Africa, the Middle East and South Asia import rod because they have no rod mill of their own.
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The standards behind Grade A cathode, why purity claims on concentrate and ore can be impossible, and what to put in the contract.
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Everyone says they have stock. Five checks that separate sellers who control copper from people forwarding someone else's offer.
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Most deals die on payment, not price. The structures that work in African copper, the ones that never do, and how to bridge the gap between test-first buyers and pay-first sellers.
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Post it free. Members who trade it get an email within minutes, and only ID-checked people can contact you.
Typical copper rod specification
Standard ETP rod must reach at least 100% IACS, about 58 MS/m, under standards such as ASTM B49. Good rod often tests a little higher. Test samples at an independent lab before you accept a lot.
No. Rod is made from cathode, so it costs the LME price plus a premium. An offer below the LME is either not rod, not the grade claimed, or not real.
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