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Corporate Profile
Malaysia Smelting Corporation Bhd (“MSC”) Group is
currently one of the world’s leading integrated producers
of tin metal and tin based products and a global leader in
custom tin smelting since 1887. In 2011, the Group produced
approximately 46,599 tonnes of tin metal thus sustaining its
global position as the second largest supplier of tin metal.
The Group’s turnover in 2011 was RM3.1 billion. MSC is listed
both on the Main Market of Bursa Malaysia since 15 December
1994 and the Main Board of Singapore Exchange (SGX-ST)
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since 27 January 2011, and is a 54.84% subsidiary of The Straits
Trading Company Limited of Singapore.
The core business sectors of MSC are:
• International Smelting & Marketing
• Exploration, Mining & Mineral Processing
InteRnatIonal SmeltIng
The first smelting facility was established in Singapore in 1887
and the second facility was built in Butterworth in 1902. Both
facilities ran concurrently for many years until the closure of
the Singapore unit while the Butterworth unit was rebuilt and
restarted in 1955 after it was heavily damaged during the
Second World War. In 2002 the Company acquired PT Koba
Tin in Indonesia and increased its reverberatory furnaces to
four with an expanded smelting capacity of 25,000 tonnes per
annum. Together with the Butterworth facility, the Division now
has an overall smelting capacity of about 60,000 tonnes in two
countries.
In the mid 90’s the Group started a tin marketing and trading
arm under the Smelting Division. The downstream unit provides
the Group with hedging, pricing and marketing linkages to the
KLTM/LME markets as well as the end-user markets worldwide.
The division produced a total of 46,599 tonnes refined tin in
2011 representing almost 13% of the world production.
The range of refined tin products currently produced is as
follows:-
• Grade A with minimum 99.85% Sn
• 99.9% Sn minimum
• 99.9% Sn minimum with 50 ppm and 100 ppm maximum Pb
• Tin anodes
• Electrolytic tin with 99.99% Sn minimum
The Malaysian (MSC Straits Refined Tin) and Indonesian (Koba)
tin brands are LME/KLTM registered.