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This and the other picture are of the Essex materials processing center in Columbia City. Scrap copper goes in one end of the building, gets compacted into cubes, and into the furnace. Copper rod (the coil to the left of the forkilft) is coiled, palletized, and banded to the pallet. Each one weighs around 6500 lbs. Diameter ranges from 3/8 to 1/2.

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