Chambishi Copper Smelter Limited is a company located within the Chambishi Multi-Facility Economic Zone (MFEZ) and is one of Zambia’s largest copper concentrate processing companies, with a capacity design to produce 250,000 tons of copper blister per year
This is from the copper concentrates that the company purchases from both local and foreign entities. It also produces 670,000 tons of sulphuric acid as a by-product for local and export markets.
Chambishi Copper Smelter Company Limited is the first large-scaled modern pyro metallurgical copper smelting project established overseas by China. CCS is owned by two shareholders. China Non Ferrous Metal Mining(Group) Co. Ltd. (CNMC) with 60% shares and Yunnan Copper (Group) Co. Ltd. (YCC) with 40% shares.