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The copper rate on this page is the per-kilogram rate our own factory in Lahore paid, posted on the days the factory buys copper — a purchase record, not an exchange feed.
Copper trades on the London Metal Exchange in US dollars every working day, and the rupee moves against the dollar on its own schedule, so no rupee copper figure in Pakistan stays true for long. That is why cable is quoted by the day, and why the fastest way to a real number is one WhatsApp message with your size, length and city.
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Posted on days the factory buys copper
Ask today's rate on WhatsAppBe clear about what that number is, because the honesty is the point. It is not a live exchange feed, and it is not a bazaar rumour passed along the row of shops. It is what this factory paid for the copper now going through the line, per kilogram, on the day it bought. The owner posts it on buying days; between buying days the last posted figure stands, dated. If you want the market this minute, the exchanges publish dollars per tonne. If you want to know what cable made this week actually cost in metal, this is the number that decides it.
The copper rate in Pakistan is not a single number. The world price is set on the London Metal Exchange in US dollars per tonne and changes every trading day. The rupee rate a cable factory actually pays then depends on two more things: the rupee–dollar exchange rate on that day, and the local copper market, where refined wire rod and clean scrap trade at different levels. Pilone Cables posts on this page the per-kilogram rate its own factory in Lahore paid, updated on the days the factory buys copper. That number is a purchase record, not an exchange feed — it can sit a day behind the market, but it is never an estimate. One kilogram of that copper draws into roughly 45 metres of 2.5 mm² conductor, the size electricians call 7/29, which is why every cable quote in the country moves when this number moves.
Three inputs, stacked. The world metal price, the currency that converts it, and the local market that trades it. When an electrician asks a shop for the tamba rate today, the answer he hears is the end of that chain — and it matters which link moved, because two of the three can move with no change in the metal itself.
| Input | What it is | How it moves the rupee rate |
|---|---|---|
| LME copper | The world benchmark, in US dollars per tonne, traded every working day | Metal up, rupee rate up — even when nothing changes inside Pakistan |
| Rupee–dollar rate | The exchange rate that converts the dollar price into rupees | Rupee weaker, copper dearer — same metal, same tonne |
| Local copper market | Wire rod and scrap trading in the local bazaar, by grade | Supply and grade set a premium or discount over the converted world price |
The third row is where most confusion lives. "Tamba rate" in the bazaar can mean clean scrap, mixed scrap or refined wire rod, and those are different materials at different levels — a scrap figure overheard in the market is not the rate a factory pays for the copper it draws into wire. What the metal in the finished conductor should be, and how to check it, is on what 100% copper wire means.
This is the arithmetic that connects the posted rate to a cable quote, and it fits in three lines. Take 2.5 mm² single core, the house-circuit size electricians call 7/29 (7/.029). Its IEC 60228 nominal area times copper's density of 8.89 kg/km per mm² gives 2.5 × 8.89 = 22.2 kg of copper in every kilometre — which is 22.2 grams in every metre.
Now call the day's per-kilogram rate R, whatever it is when you read this. The copper floor per metre is 22.2 g × R ÷ 1000 = 0.0222 × R. Over a 90 m coil it is 22.2 × 0.090 = 2.00 kg, so the coil's copper alone costs 2.00 × R before a gram of PVC goes on. Run it backwards and one kilogram of copper is 1000 ÷ 22.2 ≈ 45 metres of that conductor. A three-core cable of the same size carries three times the copper, so multiply by the core count.
Floor is the right word. On top of the metal sit the insulation compound, the drawing and extrusion work, packing, freight and the seller's margin — and none of those can make the copper cheaper than the rate the factory paid for it. A quote that works out below the copper floor for its size is short of copper, not generous. The full anatomy of a quote, the unit conversions and the nine lines a proper quote must state are on how cable is priced in Pakistan; this page only carries the metal end of it.
The same arithmetic across the four sizes most house wiring uses. Multiply any coil figure by the posted per-kilogram rate and you have that coil's copper cost floor for the day.
| Size | Strand code | Copper per km | Copper per 90 m coil | Metres per kg |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1.5 mm² | 3/.029 | 13.3 kg | 1.20 kg | 75 m |
| 2.5 mm² | 7/.029 | 22.2 kg | 2.00 kg | 45 m |
| 4 mm² | 7/.036 | 35.6 kg | 3.20 kg | 28 m |
| 6 mm² | 7/.044 | 53.3 kg | 4.80 kg | 19 m |
Read the last column as the leverage of the copper rate on your quote: the fewer metres a kilogram makes, the harder that size moves when the metal moves. A 6 mm² coil holds four times the copper of a 1.5 mm² coil, so the same per-kilogram change hits it four times as hard in rupees. That is the whole reason big sizes are the ones worth confirming on the day of the order.
Because the quote prices the metal, and the metal reprices daily. A Monday quote is Monday's copper at Monday's exchange rate; by Thursday all three inputs above may have moved, and the factory's next buy happens at the new level. Nothing about the cable changed — the cost of what it is made of did. So treat any cable quote as valid for its date unless a validity is written on it, budget from an indicative rate if the job is weeks away, and confirm the firm number on the day you release the order.
How a full quote is built — units, coil lengths, the copper-weight and strand checks that make two quotes comparable — is on how cable is priced in Pakistan. Where each size sits in the rate structure is on the cable price list, and converting a metre rate to a foot or coil rate is on cable price per meter.
Send the type, the size in mm² or strand code, the total metres or coils, and your city. You get the day's factory rate on the whole list at once, priced off the copper we actually bought. Punjab in 1–2 days, rest of Pakistan in 2–4. Mon–Sat, 9:00–18:00.