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The uncompromising quality and reliability of Halcor's products and services are the foundations on which the copper segment forges strong partnership links with major customers in Greece and abroad. The production base of copper segment includes 4 plants in Greece and Bulgaria, which are in a position to deliver innovative products with high quality characteristics at all times.

Production Unit Location Scope of production

HALCOR Foundry

Inofita

Semi-finished products (billets and slabs), 8mm wire rod

HALCOR Copper Tubes Plant

Inofita

Copper tubes for heating, water supply, cooling, natural gas transport, air conditioning and industrial use

SOFIA MED Copper Processing Plant

Sofia (Bulgaria)

Flat copper, brass and special-alloy products, copper bus bars and rods

FITCO Brass Bars and Tubes Extrusion Plant

Inofita

Finished brass products (bars, profiles, rods, wires and tubes)

EPIRUS METALWORKS Coin Blanks Manufacturing Plant

Ioannina

Coin Blanks and Rings for bi-colour coin blanks
  • +HALCOR Foundry (Oinofyta)
    Total area: 51,213 m2
    Buildings: 11,638 m2
    Production capacity: 235,000 tons annually
     
    The Oinofyta-based HALCOR foundry operates using natural gas, thus reducing the air pollutant emissions, and manufactures copper, brass and other alloy billets and slabs. 
    The plant operates in the manufacture of semi-finished products for the Group’s other plants. It includes:
     
    • 2 lines of semi-continuous melting and casting of brass billets (both for lead and pure brass)
    • 1 line for the production of titan-zinc slabs
    • 1 line for the production of slabs made of special alloys
    • 1 line of continuous vertical melting and casting of copper billets
    • 1 line of continuous melting, casting and in-line rolling for the production of Ø8 copper wire.
     
    Specifically, the plant manufactures copper, brass and other alloy billets and slabs. The plant has a copper and copper alloy scrap collection and sorting centre and is certified as per ISO 9001:2008, ISO 14001:2004, ISO 18001:2007 and OHSAS 18001.
  • +HALCOR Copper Tubes Plant (Oinofyta)
    Total area: 198,061 m2
    Buildings: 67,414 m2
    Production capacity: 75,000 tons annually
     
    The Group’s copper tubes plant in Oinofyta is involved in copper billet processing and manufactures the following products:
     
    • Copper tubes in straight lengths and hard, semi-hard or soft coils.
    • Coated copper tubes.
    • Copper tubes for special uses.
     
    These products are a reliable choice, offering solutions used in the construction of heating, water supply, cooling and natural gas transportation networks and in general industrial applications.
     
    The copper tubes plant in Oinofyta has some of the most effective machinery in Europe and figures among the few plants that are able to manufacture tubes with inner grooves and small wall thickness, which are widely used in the production of heat exchangers. 
     
    The facilities are certified as per ISO 9001:2008, ISO 14001:2004, ISO 18001:2007 and OHSAS 18001.
  • +FITCO Brass Bars and Tubes Extrusion Plant (Oinofyta)
    Total area: 57,980 m2
    Buildings: 23,120 m2
    Production capacity: 40,000 tons annually
     
    The Oinofyta-based plant of FITCO uses hot or cold extrusion techniques and brass scrap as primary raw material and manufactures the following products meeting a number of European and American quality specifications (EN, DIN, BS, NF, ASTM): 
     
    • Solid and hollow brass rods (round - hexagon - square)
    • Solid and hollow brass profiles
    • Brass wire
    • Brass bars
    • Seamless brass tubes of different cross-sections
    • Seamed brass tubes with a circular cross-section (welding with high frequency current)
     
    The plant’s facilities are certified as per ISO 9001:2008, ISO 14001:2004, ISO 18001:2007 and OHSAS 18001.
  • +SOFIA MED Copper Processing Plant (Sofia, Bulgaria)
    Total area: 250,000 m2
    Buildings: 120,000 m2
    Production capacity: 100,000 tons annually
     
    Sofia Med is a producer of a wide range of rolled and extruded copper and copper alloy products such as sheets, strips, plates, circles, disks, bare and plated copper bus bars, rods, profiles, components and wire that are used in a wide variety of building and industrial applications.
     
    The plant is certified as per ISO 9001, ISO 14001 and OHSAS 18001 and runs casting, rolling and extrusion lines. Following the investment plan implemented in SOFIA MED, works were also carried out in 2013 to optimise even further the production effectiveness and raise production capacity.
  • +EPIRUS METALWORKS Plant
    Total area: 22,021.92 m2
    Buildings: 7,723.28 m2
    Production capacity: 18 tons/day
     
     
    Epirus Metalworks is one of the leading manufacturers of coin blanks in Europe. Its state-of the-art manufacturing plant produces all types of coin blanks and rings for bi-colour coins. The manufacturing plant is located in the north-western region of Greece, 60km from the historic city of Ioannina.
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Offices and Copper Tube Plant
62nd km Athens-Lamia National Road, 32011 Inofita -Viotia
Tel. +30 22620 48111, Fax. +30 22620 48911