Capital Maintenance and Improvement Projects at the Horne Foundry, Glencore

Mandate and Objectives

Glencore’s Horne smelter is located in Rouyn-Noranda. Glencore is among the largest copper producers in the world. The Foundry is the benchmark in metal transformation and recycling, producing 99.1% pure copper anodes.

For 20 years, ASDR has been involved in continuous improvement projects at the foundry, across a variety of plant sectors.

Challenges and Issues

• Providing a dedicated team on site and in our offices to support the execution of a variety of projects.
• Ensuring the quality and responsiveness to Glencore’s requests

Solutions and Achievements

Provision of multidisciplinary engineering, project management, construction supervision and health & safety management services for a variety of projects:

• Refurbishment of the Noranda converter
• Improvement projects around the converter and anode furnaces
• Refurbishment and replacement of equipment (overhead cranes, lifting tools, heat exchangers, maintenance hoods, etc.)
• Maintenance and improvement projects (process, concentrator, ore transport, ore flow, environment, buildings, ventilation and hydrocarbon tank farm)
• Upgrade of off-gas treatment equipment
• Replacement of sulfuric acid plant equipment
• Miscellaneous work on the cryogenic oxygen plant
• Structural inspection of buildings