Why OCC wire is so expensive?

Customers sometimes complain why price of OCC sold by Tianjin Ruiyuan is quite high!

First of all, let’s learn something about OCC. OCC wire(namely Ohno Continuous Cast) is a very high-purity copper wire, renown by its high purity, excellent electrical properties and far less signal loss and distortion. It is processed and drawn with long strips of OCC polar axis crystal and a special technology to make continuous copper wires without any joints. Therefore, OCC wire has the advantages of uniform crystal structure, high conductivity and low signal distortion, and is widely used in high-quality audio sound systems, music players, earphone and other fields.

The reason for why manufacturing cost of OCC wire is high is that producing the wire requires extremely sophisticated technology and highly advanced equipment. OCC is made from a continuous copper crystal, any impurities and defects must be avoided to protect the crystal from being contaminated during the manufacturing process. The whole manufacturing process needs to be carried out in environment that is highly clean and dust-free and under fine management to prevent impurity and defects from entry and to guarantee purity and integrity of the crystal. In addition, high-quality raw materials, energy-intensive equipment and complex production processes are required, which also lead to increased costs.

In addition, there is another more important reason why OCC is expensive: really high energy consumption. Chinese government imposes a high tariff policy on the export of similar products. The export tariff is as high as 30%, the value-added tax is 13%, and there are some additional taxes and so on. Total tax burden reaches more than 45%.

Based on the above reasons, if you see low-priced Chinese-made OCC wire in market, it must be a fake or the copper material must be below impurity requirements.

Even facing high manufacturing cost and tax burden, Tianjin Ruiyuan adheres to a low-profit policy for this product to be one of the player in the high-end market and promises not to provide jerry-built OCC wire at the cost of process and raw materials. We feel a strong sense of responsibility towards our customers and value our credit very much. We firmly believe that to be responsible for our customers is the key to maintain our over-twenty-year hard-won business reputation.