Recently, the China Nonferrous Metals Industry Association and The Nonferrous Metals Society of China jointly announced the results of the annual China Nonferrous Metals Industry Science and Technology Award. As the highest honor for technological innovation in the nonferrous metals industry, this award features rigorous evaluation and high gold content, serving as an authoritative benchmark for measuring an enterprise’s technological strength and innovation capability. In its first participation in the application for such a top-tier award, our company, as the second completing unit, won the Second Class Award with the project “Key Technologies and Applications for Green and Efficient Smelting of Low-Grade Complex Copper-Cobalt Associated Ores”, adding another heavyweight honor to the company’s innovative development!
2025 China Nonferrous Metals Industry Science and Technology Award Notification (Officially Released)
Looking back on the development journey, the company has always adhered to the core philosophy of “Technology-Led, Innovation-Driven”. From deepening its presence in the hydrometallurgy field to breaking through technological bottlenecks in overseas resource development, it has continuously empowered high-quality development through technological innovation. The award-winning project accurately addresses the pain points in the development of low-grade complex copper-cobalt resources in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), innovatively establishing a full-process key technology and special equipment system featuring “raw ore acid absorption – intensified reduction leaching – multi-stage countercurrent leaching – high-efficiency solvent extraction – energy-saving electrowinning – multi-metal recovery”. It has created an environmentally friendly closed-loop process, with significant values in technological breakthroughs:
It has overcome the industry’s key challenges of low smelting efficiency and insufficient resource utilization in low-grade complex ores, achieving a dual leap in green and environmentally friendly production and economic benefit improvement;
It has significantly enhanced comprehensive resource utilization efficiency, solidifying the defense lines for environmental protection and safe production;
It has formed a replicable and promotable green smelting technology paradigm.
Behind this heavyweight honor lies the long-term persistence and tackling of key problems by the team. It is inseparable from the R&D team’s profound accumulation in the field of green and efficient hydrometallurgy, and more importantly, embodies the fighting spirit of all members in collaborative operations and overcoming difficulties. Since the project’s launch, the company has taken technological innovation as the core driving force and green development as an important orientation, repeatedly refining and continuously optimizing key technological links, and winning authoritative industry recognition with tangible R&D achievements. This award is not only a high affirmation of the company’s R&D strength and technological innovation results but also highlights its core characteristics of “fast development speed, strong innovation capability, and great potential”.
Standing at a new development starting point, the company will take this award as a cornerstone to continue its efforts: deepen industry collaborative innovation to expand the boundaries of technological cooperation; increase investment in scientific research resources to consolidate core technological barriers; accelerate the industrialization of achievements to release technological commercial value; deepen the field of green and efficient hydrometallurgy to establish an industry benchmark; and contribute to the technological upgrading and sustainable development of the global nonferrous metals industry.
In the future, the company will continue to uphold the spirit of innovation and craftsmanship, keep deepening core technological fields, continuously improve independent innovation capability, strive to leap to a higher-level industry innovation benchmark, and write a new chapter of high-quality development.
Contributor: Anhui Jinxun R&D Center
Editor: Yu Xia
Reviewer: Ma Weihua, Yang Yongchang
Source:Jinxun Stock
