Still Bright hopes its chemical process could help replace polluting copper smelters. Demand for copper is surging, as is pollution from its dirty production processes. The founders of one startup, ...

Chipmakers are relying on machine learning for electroplating and wafer cleaning at leading-edge process nodes, augmenting traditional fault detection/classification and statistical process control in ...

China’s copper smelters have agreed to process copper concentrate from Chilean miner Antofagasta for free, setting a new low for treatment and refining charges (TC/RCs) in the global copper business.