What Makes Copper Different?

Copper is one of the most widely used metals on the planet, and has been for more than 10,000 years. It’s history is rich and distinctive as its unique color, and it is now indispensable in modern society. Nexteck Technology provides full lineup copper products, like pure copper, iron-copper alloy,  CTB alloy,  copper nickel alloy and copper manganese alloy.

Copper is outstanding as its superior characteristics as below:

Highly conductive – copper conducts heat and electricity more effectively than all other metals.

Pure copper is ductile – it can be easily stretched and shaped into different forms.

100% recyclable – 80% of copper ever mined is still in use today.

Highly alloyable – there are currently more than 570 different known copper alloys, and 350 have been acknowledged as antimicrobial.

Color: copper unique reddish-orange hue is beautiful and easily identifiable. In fact, gold and osmium are the only other elemental metals with colors other than silver/grey.

Copper is used for building wire, plumbing tube, fittings, valves, plumbers’ brass goods, built-in appliances, builders hardware and other wire and tube. Not only that, there are virtually zero substitutes for copper in its applications. Only silver is a better conductor, but is over 100x times more expensive.

Copper today is now the nervous system of our cities, homes, tools and toys. The simple truth is that the our lifestyle is highly dependent on copper.