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What's happening to copper pricing?
Feb 18, 2021The advent of the pandemic has led to huge copper price rises, with, naturally, implications for copper cable and wire pricing. Here, we look at this situation, what is likely to happen, and how you as a cable buyer can plan accordingly...
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Copper - Mans Eternal Metal
Jan 21, 2020You probably already know that some of coppers’ properties include superior heat transfer, electrical conductivity and corrosion resistance. It’s the standard benchmark for electrical conductivity and conducts electrical current better than any other...
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CCA, CCS, CCC vs. pure copper – know the difference?
Jun 06, 2019Copper can be up to 80% of the cost of a cable so it’s no surprise then that alternatives to copper are constantly being sought. The practice of substituting solid copper with copper clad aluminium (CCA) or copper clad steel (CCS) to save money is still..
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Copper Update
May 30, 2014Copper has just hit the lowest average price for a month since June 2010, with worldwide copper stocks also down. We will undoubtedly see more fluctuations throughout the year but most of the long term forecasts talk of stagnation with few big surprises
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Copper Price Beginning to Rally
Oct 26, 2017Copper is having a bit of a rally hitting highs last seen in mid-October. The long term prediction are still pretty pessimistic with world economies dictating when the recovery will happen.
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Wired - Editorial With Jon Herbert
Oct 16, 2012It would be difficult to write this without acknowledging the current market conditions. Certainly some projects are being put on hold or cancelled and some sectors will spend a lot less this year on development and growth than they did last year. There
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Copper Update - Cable Theft
Oct 16, 2012When issue 9 of Wired was printed in November 2010, copper price stood at USD8000 per tonne. It got as high as USD9800 at the beginning of August 2011 but has fallen back a little since.
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Conductor Sizing
Oct 15, 2012There have been high profile cases recently of substantially undersized conductors being sold, mainly in products such as conduit wire, T&E or flexes, showing total disregard to safety. In the good old days when copper was relatively cheap, conductors w
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Wired - Editorial With Jon Herbert
Oct 15, 2012It’s been a fascinating year – we’ve certainly worked harder, hopefully smarter, with a record number of shipments. Copper fluctuations have been as challenging as ever with a fine line between getting pricing right and maintaining stocks. Overall we’ve
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Copper Price - What Effect On Cable Will The New Year Bring?
Oct 15, 2012While the price of copper has been threatening to spike for the last 5 years, with rumours of shortages and the increase in demand from the emerging markets, it is in these last 12 months when we have witnessed an unprecedented surge in the growth.
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Industry News
Oct 15, 2012Welcome to turbulent times. After what was generally regarded as a great year for the cabling industry 2007 has started rather shakily. Copper is dominant factor with the price falling and now starting to recover. If you are buying power cables there a
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Copper - What next?
Oct 15, 2012After ending 2006 at well over £3000 per ton, copper fell back to around £2600 in mid February 2007. Since March it has steadily climbed to over £4000 – a rise of over 50% in just 8 weeks. It is quite possible that the previous high of £4600+ of last May
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Whipping for cable thieves!
Oct 15, 2012It was a headline that certainly caught our eye. On a recent holiday to Malaysia, Sharon, our financial controller bought a copy of the New Sabbah Times featuring the front page news of the rise in cable and copper theft.
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Is China a Threat or a Bonus For The Cable Industry?
Oct 15, 2012An ever increasing array of products is now coming into the UK from the Far East. Although bras have been hitting the headlines in the recent bra wars, the effect of cable imports from around the world has devastated the UK cable industry with an estimate
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Copper Latest
Oct 15, 2012Fluctuations of between 10 and 12% over a 3 month period would once have sparked fear in the cable industry but are now taken in its stride.
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Copper vs. Aluminium
Oct 15, 2012As mentioned a couple of issues ago the practice of substituting solid copper with copper coated aluminium (CCA) to save money has reached the UK. Cables mainly affected so far are internal telephone cables (CW1308 type) alarm cables and coax. One of the
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Copper on the Rise
Oct 15, 2012Copper has steadily risen since Christmas showing an almost mirror image of price and movement over the past five months when compared to the same period in 2006/7.
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Copper - the Facts
Oct 15, 2012Tired of (wrongly!) predicting the fluctuations in copper price, Wired would like to give you some facts in this issue. The electrical industry is the largest user of copper consuming 42% of the annual production with Asia contributing 43% of the total co
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Copper Update
Oct 15, 2012This year copper has increased from $2770/ton to $6419/ton – a rise of over 130%. And they say the stock market is volatile! Some of this pain has been offset by the strengthening pound but it is still a massive rise, particularly in general wiring and p
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Copper on the Move
Oct 15, 2012The rescue of the 33 trapped Chilean copper miners was perhaps the only good press copper received in 2010. Unfortunately as each plucky miner was rising skyward, so was the price of copper.
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Copper Stats
Oct 15, 2012With the price of copper on the London Metal Exchange (LME) varying by the hour it is impossible to predict where it will be tomorrow, let alone next month. Add to this the variations in exchange rate, and you’ve got a recipe for volatility.
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Wired - Editorial With Jon Herbert
Oct 15, 2012What turbulent times we live in! Copper through the roof and then dropping 10%, summer factory shut-downs, increasing delivery times and world shortages of raw materials, all this while we are in the depths of a world recession!
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