As Japan’s air conditioning market heats up, copper is helping it be energy smart too. Room-type air-conditioners are now an integral part of Japanese housing, often used in every room in the home and seen as essential for modern life. In fact despite warnings that the market had reached saturation point, sales keep rising-up from […]
Do We Give a Finkel?
A new blueprint to reshape Australia’s electricity market by Chief Scientist Dr Alan Finkel provides a workable platform to achieve energy security, reliability and affordability whilst also meeting our global carbon objectives over the next 30 years. A new blueprint to reshape Australia’s electricity market by Chief Scientist Dr Alan Finkel provides a workable platform […]
Korea Launches High Efficiency Motors
A high efficiency, compact motor using the copper motor rotor technology has just been launched by ICA Korea. Showcased at the ‘Global Electric Power Tech 2016’ expo in Seoul in May, the new motor is able to improve the energy efficiency and reliability of industrial induction engines without increasing their frame size, an important advantage […]
Get Up To Speed On Speed (Before It’s Too Late)
It’s no coincidence we’re giving away Cat 6 data cable twice a day at our ARC stand if you can answer one of the “101 NBN Questions You’re Customers Could Ask You” (just listen out for our horn during the day & come running). Cat 6 is all about delivering fast, reliable, always on broadband […]
Copper’s ‘No-Touch Disinfection Technology’
Antimicrobial Copper surfaces in a children’s hospital in Chile dramatically cut the presence of bacteria. The 12-month joint US-Chile clinical trial at the Roberto del Rio Children’s Hospital in Chile studied bacteria load on both eight surfaces-bed rails, bed rail levers, IV poles, tap handles and the nurses’ workstation-that were either standard or made from […]
Lets Make Our Homes Power Stations
We now have all the technology to make our homes really energy smart says John Fennell The UK government says it wants smart homes and gadgets to be connected much more closely with the electricity grid. A plan they say will help even out the ups and downs of energy supply and demand, and save […]
China Aquaculture Adds Copper Protection
ICA China and local aquaculture companies are putting copper nets to the test. The recent Asia-Pacific Aquaculture Expo 2016 in Xiamen, China was a prime opportunity to showcase the latest advances in copper alloy netting to the world. ICA China’s booth-with the theme “Copper Alloy Cage and Copper Weir helping China to achieve Healthy Aquaculture”-highlighted […]
Smart Home Walls Falling
For years one of the biggest obstacles to a real smart home market was the fact that nothing much worked with anything else. help make that happen. In other words companies tended to work in digital silos with different systems and gadgets often locked up behind proprietary walls. But that’s now looking like a very […]
Hospital Shows How To Fight Bugs With Copper
A U.S. hospital loves its Antimicrobial Copper surfaces so much they made a movie about them. Grinnell Regional Medical Center, Iowa’s largest hospital serving 40,000 residents, has been installing antimicrobial copper touch surfaces to actively fight germs and stop the spread of infections between patients, staff and visitors. But they’ve been so impressed with the […]
Does The Smart Home Mean Business?
I realised recently just how many of the giant tech companies have moved into our homes…..Apple, Google, Amazon and Samsung all have smart home systems, phone apps to help control them and digital assistants you can talk to or wave at. And they’re just the biggest. Lots of other tech companies, telcos and an army […]
Metal Of The Moment?
Architects & designers are having a love affair with the red metal. Whether it’s outside or inside our homes & offices copper’s been getting a whole lot of love for a while now, but is looking like the next big thing in interior design. While copper’s had a resurgence as the go to metal for […]
Energy Crisis Sparks Competition
Serial entrepreneur & Tesla boss, Elon Musk, got a lot of attention last week when he said he could fix South Australia’s ‘energy crisis’ by building a massive battery storage farm. South Australia’s energy crisis quickly became Australia’s as we all learned that the country not only faces an electricity shortfall and price rises, but […]
