Copper: In addition to the domestic market, PPC is also targeting the fast-growing East Asian market
PPC markets copper products, Refined Copper, Cake and Billet and Wire Rod, to a broad range of customers principally manufacturers of electric wire and cable and rolled copper products. In its marketing activities PPC attaches great importance to satisfying customer needs, regarding not only product quality but also factors such as the punctuality of deliveries as being key value-added aspects. In addition, factors such as the transplanting of the manufacturing bases of Japanese users are bringing about a rapid increase in copper demand in China, a fact that in 2002 prompted PPC to establish Pan Pacific Copper (Shanghai) Co., Ltd., a marketing arm for copper related products. Its mission is to engage in marketing in East Asia, principally in the Chinese market, and with that goal it is planning to expand its activities in the future.

By-products: Marketing reflecting the characteristics of each product
PPC conducts marketing of high-quality Precious Metals, responding precisely to customers’ quality requirements. With respect to Sulphuric Acid, PPC produces approximately 2.0 million tons annually, including production coming from the zinc smelting process of MMS. PPC benefits from its extensive network of production bases and transportation depots across the domestic market, and utilizes it for efficient marketing.

Company-wide ISO14001 certification
As an integrated producer of nonferrous resources and materials, including copper as the main material, PPC has proclaimed its basic environmental policy as “Contributing to the preservation of the global environment through the pursuit of improvement in the productivity of resources and materials.”
    In March 2006, PPC obtained ISO14001:2004 certification (certification body: ABS Quality Evaluations, Inc.) for its head office, and its branches in Osaka, Nagoya, and Fukuoka. To establish a higher-quality environmental management system (EMS), all staff at our head office and our branches are working to obtain qualification as internal auditors, to enable them to help improve our environmental management and develop a more sophisticated EMS.

The Nikko, roll-on roll-off vessel		The Cypria, a combination carrier (concentrate and sulphuric acid)