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Ningbo Jintian Copper (Group) Co., Ltd.
China's fifth-largest copper strip and plate producer (HQ Ningbo, Zhejiang; est. 1986). Jintian's copper strip division (est. 2005) operates ~120,000 m² of production space and is rated in China's top-five copper plate/strip enterprises by CNFA (China Nonferrous Metals Fabrication Association). Product range: high-precision tin-phosphor bronze (CuSn), brass, copper strips, and zinc-copper strips compliant with EU RoHS — these are direct feedstocks for electronic connector stamping. Primary markets: electronics, telecommunications, PCB connectors, and consumer appliances. Operates multiple production complexes in the Ningbo area, with the main strip plant in Ningbo proper. Capacity estimated at 200,000+ MT/year across all copper products. Domestic Chinese market focus with some export to Southeast Asia.
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Copper Strip & Plate (Electronic Grade)
55%Brass Rod & Profiles
30%Zinc-Copper & Specialty Alloys
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Origin2023
Ningbo Jintian Copper was founded in 1986 in Ningbo, Zhejiang Province — in the early reform era when Deng Xiaoping's open-door policies allowed township and village enterprises (TVEs) to manufacture for export in the coastal Yangtze River Delta. Ningbo is a major deep-water port city historically significant as one of the original Treaty Ports opened to Western trade after the First Opium War (1842); its port infrastructure facilitated both import of copper cathode feedstock and export of finished copper products to global electronics manufacturers. Jintian grew from a small township enterprise into one of China's top-five copper strip producers by tracking the explosive growth of Chinese electronics manufacturing: the same years (1990s-2000s) that Taiwanese, Korean, and Japanese electronics companies shifted production to the Yangtze Delta created surging demand for the copper strip that goes into electronic connectors, PCB ground planes, and consumer appliance components. Ningbo's industrial zone infrastructure, combined with Zhejiang Province's entrepreneurial private enterprise culture, allowed Jintian to scale rapidly without the state enterprise bureaucracy that burdened analogous companies in Liaoning or Shanxi. The Ningbo copper fabrication cluster — Jintian plus several other Chinese copper strip producers — now collectively supply a significant fraction of the copper strip used in global electronics connector manufacturing.
Ningbo Jintian Copper Group ↗Incident2022
Ningbo Jintian Copper (SHEX: 600821) has been a named respondent in multiple US Commerce Department antidumping proceedings covering brass rod from China. In the antidumping review cycle covering 2022-2023, Commerce calculated Jintian-specific antidumping duty margins that required US importers to post substantial cash deposits on Jintian brass rod imports. Despite these duties, Jintian has continued to export to global markets and has pursued capacity expansion. Jintian's disclosed antidumping review results are publicly available in the Federal Register and Commerce Department AD/CVD portal — making Jintian one of the most legally scrutinized brass rod producers in the world from a US trade law perspective. The antidumping proceedings have created detailed public records of Jintian's production costs, selling prices, and home market comparison data — an unusual level of US government visibility into a Chinese brass manufacturer's operations.
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