Copper is one of man's oldest metals, dating back more than 10,000 years. Still usable fragments of copper plumbing have been found that are more than 5,000 years old.

Today, it remains a popular choice for plumbing and gas-fitting world-wide because it offers many benefits over other materials.

• Long-lasting - properly installed copper meets the full building lifetime durability required by the Building Act
• Proven over centuries of use - copper is the only plumbing material with years of proven trouble-free service
• Durable - copper is enormously strong and can withstand extremes of temperature from minus 196° to 600°C
• 100% natural and recyclable - CU is one of nature's primary elements, with significant resources world-wide. It is fully recyclable, with a world-wide recycling rate higher than any other engineering metal
• Versatile - copper is ideal for domestic, commercial and industrial applications, gas and water reticulation, hot and cold water, solar and central heating, cryogenics, fire sprinkler systems - and that is in the plumbing and gas-fitting fields alone
• Impermeable - contaminants cannot permeate from the external environment
• Biostatic - most bacteria cannot grow on its surface. In fact copper acts as a natural inhibitor to bacterial growth, with tests showing that 99% of opportunistic pathogens are eliminated from copper tubing in just 5 hours
• Safe - won't melt, burn or give off toxic fumes in a house fire
• Good for you - copper is essential to health and diet. The minute traces of copper in tap water supplied through copper plumbing are good for you
• Universal system - all copper in New Zealand is made to one standard, which means you can renovate old copper systems and buy new tube or fittings anywhere in the country, at any time

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