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Brass bars and rods
Copper-zinc alloy (brass) bars and rods – free-cutting, forging and hollow rods; leaded and lead-free brasses.
- Metal
- Copper
- CN
7407 21 10- PRODCOM
24.44.22.00- Form in the R02 forecast
- Alloy rods, bars and sections
semis.alloy.bars_profiles
- 12
- producing plants (incl. outside the EU) of which in the EU-27: 9
- 11
- companies
- 8
- countries
- 25.0%
- non-EU control – plants in the EU-27
Corporate groups (a company without a group counted separately): 11
Non-EU control – plants in the EU-27: 1 of 4 plants with an established controller (9 of 12 producing plants are in the EU-27; plants outside the EU are out of scope of the indicator; ownership control logic and area).
No document states a capacity for this class – no sum is computed.
Data as of: · version 2.24 · verified at source up to · Dataset changes · Markdown · JSON
Map of plants
Producers
Each entry from a primary document (class A/B/C and document page), with the verification date and the entity controlling the plant (GLEIF Level 2 or company documents).
EU-27 trade with non-EU countries
Imports into the EU-27 from non-EU countries and exports from the EU-27 to them (without trade between EU countries), tonnes and euro, 2015–2025.
Annual series (table)
| Year | Imports (t) | Exports (t) | Balance (t) | Imports (EUR m) | Exports (EUR m) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 12,836 | 54,339 | 41,503 | 58.0 | 248.3 |
| 2016 | 14,581 | 51,509 | 36,927 | 57.6 | 215.1 |
| 2017 | 16,499 | 57,575 | 41,076 | 78.0 | 267.5 |
| 2018 | 21,725 | 59,320 | 37,595 | 105.3 | 286.7 |
| 2019 | 12,550 | 57,953 | 45,403 | 62.9 | 268.7 |
| 2020 | 11,883 | 61,518 | 49,636 | 56.5 | 262.6 |
| 2021 | 14,265 | 68,604 | 54,339 | 87.9 | 363.9 |
| 2022 | 18,102 | 56,984 | 38,881 | 133.4 | 363.7 |
| 2023 | 14,801 | 51,199 | 36,398 | 100.3 | 307.4 |
| 2024 | 11,431 | 59,597 | 48,166 | 79.9 | 372.6 |
| 2025 | 14,688 | 52,451 | 37,763 | 105.8 | 330.3 |
| 2026 partial data 2026-01/2026-08 | 12,139 | 31,265 | 19,126 | 95.0 | 220.6 |
In 2025: imports 14,688 t, exports 52,451 t, balance 37,763 t (EUR 224.6 m).
Largest non-EU suppliers, 2025
- Türkiye 9,141 t
- Ukraine 2,759 t
- United Kingdom 780 t
- South Korea 718 t
- Israel 545 t
Largest non-EU customers, 2025
- Norway 11,503 t
- United Kingdom 9,787 t
- Switzerland 6,516 t
- Israel 5,301 t
- United States 5,228 t
Source: Eurostat Comext – EU trade by CN8 (DS-045409); data retrieved: 2026-10-19. CN codes of the class as in the header; balance = exports – imports. Comext
Related
- Form in the R02 forecast: Alloy rods, bars and sections median 2031: 828.1 kt (EU-27)
- Flow analysis: EU Copper Flow Analysis
- Ownership control of the producers: Ownership control (product filter)
- Companies list and map filtered to this class: Companies
Method note
- Entry only from a primary document
- A class is assigned to a plant only when a primary document names it – a product data sheet, an annual report, a register or a company page describing the product – with the document page and a reliability class (A, B or C). Press and company directories without a company document are not a basis for an entry.
- Assignment from a location document
- When a company document describes the product and only a location page points to the plant, the assignment of the product to the plant is an inference – the source then has class C and the entry awaits confirmation by a plant document.
- “Full range” is not an entry
- A general claim (“full range of copper products”) without the class, dimensions or alloys does not create an entry. A plant without an entry may make the class – the register does not know.
- Capacity only from a document
- Class capacity (kt) – only when a document states it; no estimates and no split of a whole plant’s capacity into classes. The sum covers only plants with a stated capacity and is a lower bound – always given with the number of plants it covers.
- Entry status
- Produced, planned production (investment announced in a document), production ended. A closed plant – production ended. Key figures – “produced” only.
- Ownership control
- The entity controlling the plant and its country – as in Ownership control (GLEIF Level 2, GLEIF exceptions, groups from company documents). The non-EU share is computed only among producers located in the EU-27 with an established controller (as the default area of Ownership control); a plant outside the EU – e.g. in Türkiye, the United Kingdom, Switzerland or Serbia – is out of scope of the indicator, although it counts among plants and countries.
- Trade
- Eurostat Comext: EU-27 with non-EU countries, CN codes of the class (sum of the codes), tonnes and euro. A CN code may cover products of other classes (e.g. rods and sections in one code) – trade describes CN codes, not the plants of the register.
- Metals kept apart
- Each class belongs to one metal (copper, aluminium). Each metal has its own page; both metals share a layout of six families (wire rod and wire; bars and sections; plate, sheet and strip; foil; tubes; derived products), split by material within a family. Header figures and trade totals are given separately for each metal – tonnes of copper and aluminium are never added up. Derived products (e.g. winding wire, structures, cans, stranded wire) are marked and are not semi-finished products.
- Counterpart in the other metal
- A copper ↔ aluminium substitution pair (e.g. wire, coiled tubes, strip, stranded wire) comes from the dictionary field or from the portal map of pairs. The comparison shows the figures of both classes side by side, without a total, and the application sentence has no figures; a pair does not mean interchangeability in every application.
- Links by metal
- Copper classes have a form in the R02 forecast and the EU copper flow analysis; aluminium classes – the EU aluminium flow analysis and the country analyses (the R01 and R02 forecasts cover copper only). An analysis link given with the class takes precedence.
- Pilot coverage
- The pilot covers copper and aluminium semi-finished products and their alloys at plants of the Companies register. Counts of plants, countries and groups and the capacity sum are a lower bound of the market – they grow with further documents.
Pages and Markdown are open to text and data mining with attribution; JSON data – like the other JSON data of the register – are reserved as a database compilation. Trade data: Eurostat (reuse with attribution).