About the Company

KGHM Metraco S.A. is a trading and manufacturing company established in 1991. The key goal of the company’s operations is the provision of complex services in favor of KGHM Polska Miedź S.A., within the scope of specified raw materials and products, basing on the logistic activity.

The largest buyer of scrap copper in Poland and in Central and Eastern Europe

Leading rock salt distributor

Solid Partner

 

Road aggregates producer

Solid base for the development of infrastructure

Environmentally friendly

KGHM Metraco S.A. is a specialized trading and manufacturing company established in 1991, which belongs to the KGHM Polska Miedź S.A. capital group. It is engaged in the management of products produced in the course of operation of mines and smelting plants, as well as in the recovery of copper.

The Company is a major domestic supplier of salt intended for winter road maintenance and the largest buyer of scrap copper in Poland. It also owns the most modern Sulphuric Acid Transshipment Terminal in Europe, which was commissioned in the Port of Szczecin. After the merger between the Company and one of the companies from the Group – KGHM Ecoren (31 January 2014) – the Company became one of the biggest manufacturers of crushed aggregates in Poland, supplying raw material i.a. for the purposes of strategic road investments in Poland.

The Company is a trustworthy, proven and reliable business partner, which for years has successively increased its territory and scale of operations. This is confirmed by numerous awards and certificates, not only in the field of standards and high quality of its processes, but also in the field of ethics and CSR activities.

We specialize in:

Sale

of road salt, cables and wires, copper cathodes and wire rod, oxygen-free copper wire, etc.

Production

of ammonium perrhenate and metallic rhenium, road building aggregates, granulated slag, copper and silver

 

Purchase

of sulphuric acid, 40 % hydrazine hydrate, calcium phosphate, hydrochloric acid

 

Provision of Logistic Services

by rail, road and marine transport

Mission

The Company mission is timely, professional and efficient provision of industrial waste recycling services to our Clients. 

Vision

We are going to become a cross-sectoral leader of circular economy, focusing on new markets, product development, innovation, environmental protection, safety of people and processes.

High quality of the Company’s products and services is achieved in an environment-friendly way.
Owing to the engagement of the Management Board and Personnel, we deliver to our Clients a significant added value and are distinguished by: innovativeness, support of product and technology development, mobility and professionalism.

We pursue goals aimed at:

  1. Broadening of our potential customers market for goods and services.
  2. Striving for optimizing the Company’s operations.
  3. Achievement of EBITDA on the level planned.
  4. Implementation of technical and organizational progress.
  5. Enhancement of knowledge and skills of the Company’s Personnel through training system and professional improvement.
  6. Improvement and development of the Integrated Quality, Environment and Work Safety Management System.

We undertake to:

  1. Provide financial resources which are necessary to achieve the goals established.
  2. Manufacture safe and environmentally-friendly products in conditions which ensure the work safety.
  3. Minimize adverse impact on the environment via controlling of environmental aspects.
  4. Meet the legal requirements relating to our business.

Scrap Metal Trading Base of KGHM Metraco S.A. is the only company from the Capital Group of KGHM Polska Miedź S.A. engaged in the processing of scrap copper delivered to KGHM smelting plants, in purchasing scrap fine-grained steel 5-150 mm and in managing usable wastes from the KGHM Branches (Cu and Al scrap cables, scrap engines, scrap transformers, scrap radiators, waste electrical and electronic equipment).

Environmentally friendly

In order to produce aggregates KGHM Metraco S.A. uses copper slag from Głogów and Legnica Copper Smelting Plants being a by-product of copper smelting process.

With regard to chemical composition, the slag is similar to natural rocks such as basalt and gabbro.