Kyshtym Copper Electrolysis Plant CJSC (part of Russian Copper Company CJSC) is putting up a shop meant for production of rolled wire with the estimated capacity of 90,000 tons of copper wire rods a year. The shop should be launched in the middle of 2007. According to the spokesperson for Russian Copper Company, its total throughput in terms of rolled wire production is expected to rise to 200,000 tons annually, which means that the company will increase its throughput by twenty times (from 10,000 tons to 200,000 tons a year) within four years (2003-2007).