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Revised Installation Tips Now Available for Professional and Student Plumbers Recently revised and up-to-date on the latest Standards and practices, Installation Tips is a free reference book for plumbers.

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Look Inside the Copper in Architecture Awards Judging Eight diverse projects from across Europe have been shortlisted for the 2017 European Copper in Architecture Awards. This article gives a preview of the shortlist and a glimpse inside the judging process.

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3rd Symposium on Materials and Products in Contact with Drinking Water This year’s symposium aims to present and discuss the main developments, initiatives and achievements of the last year´s activities related to Article 10 Drinking Water Directive within the remit of DG Environment and DG Growth.

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Online Copper Conductivity Materials Database for Electrical and Electronic Engineering Launched A free-to-access Copper Conductivity Materials database covering copper alloys for electrical conductivity applications is now available online to help specifiers and designers with material selection, addressing a current knowledge gap.

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2018 Copper Education Competition Launched The 2018 Uncover Copper competition has launched, inviting UK students aged 11–16 to explore copper's essential role in our present and future to win great prizes for themselves and their schools.

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Strong Corrosion Performance of Copper Alloys Highlighted at Marine Conference CDA will make an invited presentation—Metals in Marine Environments: Corrosion Behaviour and How to Spot It—to the International Institute of Marine Surveying at this year’s Seawork International Show and Conference, with a focus on the strong contribution copper alloys can make to marine engineering.

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Copper Alloys: State-of-the-Art Engineering on the Agenda at Corrosion 2017 The development of copper alloys—from traditional applications to state-of-the-art engineering—will be described in a symposium at NACE International’s Corrosion 2017.

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A World of Copper

Copper is essential for modern living. It delivers electricity and clean water into our homes and cities and makes an important contribution to sustainable development. More than that, it is essential for life itself.

The content on this website provides information to all stakeholders interested in the application of copper and copper alloys—copper users, professionals, policy makers, journalists and students. The platform contains the latest information on the uses of copper and its alloys, along with the benefits provided in the main areas of application.