Russian Copper Company (RMK) was given the 46th position in the traditional rating of non-public companies carried by the Forbes magazine, RMK’s PR Department reports.

For the purposes of the rating, companies are ranked according to their revenues in 2011.

Russian Copper Company’s key financial performance indicators have been growing steadily for the last few years due to the ongoing upgrades projects (which are part of the company’s long-term development program), proactive policy on securing the group’s raw materials base, and clever management.

The company’s production capacity currently comes to 200,000 tons of cathode copper and up to 200,000 tons of copper wire rod a year. By 2015, RMK expects to increase its production capacity to 330,000 tons of cathode copper and 100,000 tons of zinc concentrate annually.