Lead Ingot Production Cost Reports

Lead Ingot production cost report provides a comprehensive analysis and know-how for setting up a Lead Ingot production plant. The study covers all the requisite aspects that one needs to know for the production of Lead Ingot. This includes manufacturing processes, raw material requirements, utility requirements, infrastructure requirements, machinery and technology requirements, manpower requirements, packaging requirements, transportation requirements, etc.

Lead Ingot is a lead metal shaped like an ingot available in soft and hard lead ingots. It is also known as bullion or bar lead, and lead pigs.

It has a chemical composition of 99.995% Pb. It is typically difficult to melt with a melting point of 327.3°C. When freshly mined at the factory, it appears to be bluish-white in colour and begins to tarnish and turn grey when exposed to air. It has a molecular weight of 207.2 and a density of 11.35 g/cm3. Its respective melting and boiling point is 327.502 °C and 1740 °C. When swallowed or inhaled, the ingots can be harmful; hence it is important to wear adequate safety equipment when dealing with or melting lead in any form.

Lead ingots are used for a broad range of applications, from fishing sinkers to bullets. In common industrial production, it can be used for making batteries, accumulators, soldering electrodes, reserving energy for wind turbines, and power cables, blocking X-rays, making electrolytic plates, and in defence and mechatronics industries. Soft lead ingots are mainly used due to their being soft, malleable, ductile and corrosion resistant, which makes them ideal for applications such as power & power storage, like underwater power and communication cables. It can be found in (electric) vehicle batteries and in batteries operating emergency power supplies.

It also finds use in end-uses like chemicals, roofing sheets and radiation shielding, along with its use as an alloying element to other metals. Also, Hard Lead Ingots are used as lead alloys for several machined or structural products, where antimony gives the design rigidity. Lead antimony plates are usually employed in lead–acid batteries. It's alloys and tin with antimony display improved properties for bullets, solders and plain bearings, which in turn further the market expansion.