Gushan Environmental Energy Limited, through its subsidiaries, manufactures copper products, produces biodiesel and biodiesel by-products, and sells its products in China. The company offers copper rods, copper wires, copper granules, copper bars, and copper plates primarily from copper, as well as electrolytic copper to intermediaries and manufacturers for processing into power cables, communication cables, and other products. It also provides scrap materials left in production lines, such as copper ash to its customers to recycle into raw materials; and performs processing services, such as processing scrap copper owned by its customers into copper products based on customers’ specifications. The company sells its copper products primarily to power cable manufacturers and raw material traders through direct sales. In addition, Gushan Environmental Energy Limited produces and sells biodiesel and by-products, including glycerine, plant asphalt, erucic acid, erucic amide, stearic acid, and fatty acid methyl ester. Biodiesel is a renewable biodegradable fuel and a raw material used to produce chemical products; used to fuel a range of diesel engines; and used as fatty acid methyl ester in the chemical industry. The company sells these products to marine vessel operators, chemical companies, petroleum wholesalers, and individual retail gas stations. Gushan Environmental Energy Limited was founded in 2001 and is based in Fuzhou, China. As of October 17, 2012, Gushan Environmental Energy Limited was taken private.