RTB BOR operates as a single system with a parent company and main

production subsidiaries (Copper Mines Bor, Copper Mines Majdanpek).

The TIR Copper Smelter and Refinery complex comprises the following

units: Smelter, Tankhouse, Sulphuric Acid Plant, Foundry, Power Plant,

Metal Salts Plant, Copper Wire Plant and Transport.

EMC project office at SEPA

http://www.emc-project.gov.rs/

Serbian Environmental Protection Agency

Ruže Jovanovića 27a

11 160 Belgrade, Serbia

+381 11 28 61 067

■ Activities

The basic product of TIR is copper

cathode. Other products include:

■ precious metals

■ precious metals salts

■ sulphuric acid

■ copper powder

■ copper sulphate

■ copper, bronze and

brass-based casts

■ sectioned and dip-forming wire

■ sinter metallurgy

■ heat energy

■ Environment

“Reconstruction of the Smelter

and Construction of the Sulphuric

Acid Plant”, an ongoing project that

is nearly complete, aims to achieve

the following:

■ reaching ambient air quality legal

limit values (125 µg/m

3

)

■ complete recirculation

of technological water

■ safe management of waste

■ increased process energy

efficiency through improved

rational resource utilisation

■ Reporting

Implementation of the TEAMS*

system for reporting to the National

Register of pollution sources within

SEPA is also underway. This

applies for the Smelter, Foundry,

Sulphuric Acid Plant and Power

Plant. An air-quality monitoring

system operates at fixed stations

within the city that are

most endangered.

„RTB BOR” D.O.O. BOR

RTB BOR LTD., BOR

Copper mining and smelting complex

* The EMC Centre provides its client-partners with the use of TEAMS SR software, an environmental accounting and reporting system

in accordance with the PRTR Protocol and national legislation of the Republic of Serbia in this area.