Asarco Copper
Asarco offers refined copper in a wide Variety of shapes and sizes. The high-quality, electrolytic tough pitch (ETP) copper produced by ASARCO meets or exceeds the chemical analysis specified by the American Society for Testing and Materials (ASTM).
Product families
Applications
- Building Wires & Power Cables
Product Families
- Metals
Other characteristics
- End Uses
- Wires
- Synonyms
- Cu
- Markets
- Electrical & Electronics
- Features
Copper is Ductile:; Compared to other metals, copper is very ductile, meaning that it can be drawn through a tiny hole into very fine wire without breaking. Refining improves the ductility of copper so that extremely fine wires can be drawn. Impurities increase the chance that the wire will break during the drawing process. Copper conducts electricity. Only silver conducts electricity better than copper and traditionally costs 40 times the price of copper. Refining improves the conductivity of copper by lowering the electrical resistance. Resistance is like friction to electricity, and it causes energy to be lost as heat in poorly conducting wires. Improved conductivity means more energy is delivered to the desired destination when you flip that switch or turn that dial.; Copper is Recyclable:; More than one-third of the copper refined in the United States comes from recycled material. That's a higher recycling rate than aluminum! Scrap copper comes from manufacturers of all sorts of copper and brass products. The copper is melted and cast into anodes and refined just like 'new' copper from the mines and smelters.
- Technology
- Base Chemicals & Intermediates
- Quality Standards
- ASTM International
- Base Chemicals End Uses
- Wires
- Chemical Base
- High Electrical Conductivity
- Certifications and Compliance
- ISO 9001
