KME the manufactures of TECU have tied up with “Vijaynath” to introduce their products in Indian Market.

Materials made from copper and copper alloys are regenerative natural products that are almost as old as humanity itself. They ensure highly-efficient transport of energy for electrical engineering, rapid and reliable heat transfer for solar thermal energy, and extremely durable protection and long-term value maintenance in the construction industry, to name just a few of many examples.

Copper is one of the most efficient materials that exist. In its entire cycle from mining through processing to reprocessing, from use to reuse after recycling, there are as good as no waste products and no loss of quality. The economic advantages of this are reliable material characteristics in the long term, long-life products, and no need to worry about disposal, since copper can be recycled again and again practically without end.

Especially in the construction industry, copper and copper alloys –including of course all TECU® brand products – prove time and again to be highly efficient materials. When they are exposed to the open weathering of a building, they develop a protective layer of oxidisation, which produces the characteristic colouring and ensures long life. As the material ages, it retains practically all its value, since no waste is generated upon subsequent dismantling; on the contrary, it provides valuable, reusable scrap metal. The decisive economic factor is that copper is not a consumable material, but a utilisable
material with an ever-repeatable life-cycle.

The excellent recycling possibilities for copper and copper alloys play especially to the advantage of TECU^® products. In comparison to the many technical applications that are more “concealed”, building claddings facilitate much simpler dismantling and make recovery extremely cheap. An advantage that paid off recently with the restoration of the roof of Hamburg’s ‘Michel’, the St. Michaelis church on the Elbe. KME supplied some 44 tons of TECU^® Classic in strip format for the recovering of the roof, and in exchange the old roof copper was taken straight to the recycling plant, where it could be melted down and used to manufacture new products. An ideal process for a resource-conserving recycling circuit that saves costs and energy.

TECU^® products made from copper and copper alloys are very easy to process for a wide variety of uses. They can be moulded without any great effort to give shape to individual design ideas and be adapted to the requirements of the building. Building with TECU^® enables high-quality aesthetic solutions that significantly enhance the market value of a building. The excellent balance of costs over the entire life of the material comes not least from the fact that it guarantees that practically no maintenance is needed on the building. And this life is considerable. If fitted properly, TECU^® products last at least as long as the building itself.

Characteristic, vital and individual: innovative TECU^® copper and copper alloy products make a sustainable mark on our environment. They enable architects and their clients to put their own new design ideas into practice as well as to restore existing buildings in appropriate ways. Pre-weathered TECU^® surfaces extend the range of possible variations even further. They anticipate the highly aesthetic colouring changes typical of copper, with the products continuing to develop quite naturally after installation, and retaining without exception all the characteristics of copper.

Building with TECU^® is especially innovative because no limits are set to the interplay of creativity and ecological awareness. Thus, the new TECU^® products with perforated surfaces offer a wide range of new choices for extremely sustainable finishing. The partial transparency of the structure of the surfaces is achieved by punching out and stretching the material and, depending on the degree of perforation, makes it possible to work creatively with transparency and reflection. The advantages of the material, such as efficiency, long life and sustainability can be used to the full. Here, too, there is no waste. The stamped-out parts are simply put back into the recycling circuit.