Did you know that in 1886, the Statue of Liberty represented the largest use of copper in a single structure? It required about 80 tons of copper sheet that was cut and hammered to a thickness of about 2.3 millimeters (3/32 inch), or the thickness of two U.S. pennies placed together.
Additionally, Copper is necessary for human health. The best sources of dietary copper include seafood, organ meats, whole grains, nuts, raisins, legumes, and chocolate.
Below are just a few areas where Copper is regularly used:
• Building/construction
• Power generation
• Transmissions
• Electronic product manufacturing
• Plumbing
• Appliances
• Heating and cooling systems
• Telecommunications links
• Jewelry
• Pots and Pans
Copper is used in a variety of industries because it can be easily stretched, molded, and shaped; it is resistant to corrosion and efficiently conducts heat and electricity.
The list can go on and to add to the above tidbits, copper is reusable, actually, it is one of the world's most reusable resources! In fact, Copper has an infinite recyclable life. How cool is that?
Here at Coinco, Inc., we regularly work with copper to manufacture components for the electrical industry and do our part by recycling our scrap. Just think, some of the copper that you have in your home or that you may work with has probably been around for hundreds, if not thousands of years.
Each year in the United States, nearly as much copper is recovered from recycled material as is from newly mined ore. If you exclude wire production, most of which uses newly refined copper, the amount of copper used by copper and brass mills, ingot makers, foundries, power plants, and other industries shows that nearly three-fourths (72%) comes from recycled copper scrap.
Feel free to contact us if you have an application or a project you are working on that we can potentially help you with.
