Business View Magazine | October 2019

60 BUSINESS VIEW MAGAZINE OCTOBER 2019 is 100 percent recyclable for its life. Copper is an important driver in the electro-mobility marketplace - there’s four times as much copper in an electric vehicle compared to an internal combustion engine. Then, you take that throughout the whole value chain – the vehicle, the charging station, the electrical grid, the energy storage systems - without copper, the whole electric mobility movement isn’t going to be as efficient or effective. It’s also anti-microbial. Copper will actually kill, on contact, 99.9 percent of germs within a two-hour period. So, it has some great benefits for public health in the area of green and healthy buildings. We see a lot of buildings going for LEED certification, and now there’s what they call WELL certification in which a building is designed for the wellness of the people that occupy it. I think there are over 140 applications of copper within them, so, copper plays an integral part in green and healthy buildings.” “The fact is, copper makes people’s lives better,” Passek says in conclusion. “Oftentimes, they don’t see what’s behind the wall – whether it’s the plumbing, whether it’s the electrical, whether it’s the anti-microbial touch surface. We use the tagline: ‘Better Economy, Better Planet, Better Health, Better Transport, Better Buildings.’ So, the outlook for the copper industry remains solid. The future is bright as copper is, itself.”