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New Publication on a Modern Engineering Material – Brass
'The Brasses – properties and
applications' is the title of the updated and revised issue of Copper
Development Association’s publication known in the industry for many
years as 'The big yellow book', nick-named by many ‘The Brass
Bible’.
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17th June 2005 |
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Copper
and Copper Alloys - New Equivalent National Standards Software
Copper Development Association is
launching 'Copper Key', new software which enables
users to find equivalent copper and copper alloy standards and
compositions for EN and old BS materials from other national material
designations including US (ASTM), German (DIN), Japanese (JIS) and
Chinese (GB) material designations.
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9th June 2005 |
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Standards
for Copper and Copper Alloys - New Publication
Copper Development Association publication 'Copper and Copper Alloys -
Compositions, Applications and Properties' has been revised and updated
to reflect progress in standards development since the 1998 version.
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2nd June 2005
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Free machining brass - a closed environmental
loop
This is a particularly close look at the ease and thoroughness with
which free-machining brass is recycled and re-used. Recycling is
essential to the economics of brass manufacturing and is very closely
linked to the metal's positive relationship with environmental
stewardship.
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22nd November 2004 |
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Brazing - the magic moment
".......an ingenious thing, but of great usefulness."
Vannoccio Biringuccio 'Pirotechnica' 1540.
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9th October 2004 |
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Case Studies
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Brass
shielding prevents RF interference
Like many companies in the electronics sector, Park Air Systems use
copper alloys for a number of applications including connectors, heat
sinks etc, but one application that demonstrates the versatility and
cost-effectiveness of brass (an alloy of copper and zinc) is detailed
here.
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8th August 2006 |
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Brass....
helps Securon set the gold standard in safety belts
Seat belts use a number of different and widely varying materials e.g.
webbing, metals, plastics etc. and make use of an equally large number
of manufacturing processes including injection moulding, cold pressing,
hot seal cutting and sewing, many of which are carried out within the
company. Securon, however, choose to use free machining brass bar for
the safety critical vehicle motion sensor.
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25th April 2005 |
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Brass - showering wishes on designers
A & J Gummers has been a leading manufacturer of thermostatic
showers, taps and water controls since the 1950s. The company
became members of the Masco Corporation of the USA in 1999 and continue
to design and manufacture original products for increasingly wider
markets at their 40,000 sq ft. Birmingham factory.
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9th September 2004 |
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Telford company switches on to electrostatic stoving
Highly polished brass has always had great aesthetic appeal to
architects, designers and end-users, but maintaining that just polished
finish without an army of ‘Mrs Mopps’ at the ready with their yellow
dusters constantly ‘Brassoing’ is a real challenge. SSK Ltd, working
in close collaboration with Indestructible Paints of Birmingham, have
risen to that challenge and developed a finish that is invisible to the
naked eye but maintains that ‘just finished polished look’
indefinitely.
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16th December 2003 |
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Filial Brass
Reported here for the first time is the story of the creation and
development of ‘Filial Brass’, a term created by CDA and offered to
Fibretech as the conceptual identity of this, a truly new method of
forming brass.
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27th November 2003 |
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Brass is tops bar-none at Cornwallis
The manufacture of bar-top furniture is a thriving industry and no one
addresses it with more design and manufacturing talent, enthusiasm and
success than the Sant Group of Tipton.
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24th October 2003
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Brass goes nuclear - where plastics fear to tread
Case study from Abakus Scientif who produce sophisticated high
tolerance lenses for nuclear and many other uses.
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1st July 2003
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Norgren Design in Brass for a Hot Application
A typical high temperature application is chosen here as an
illustration of the use of brass for a re-designed control valve to
operate at temperatures in excess of 200° C,
in this case in the context of a metal refining environment.
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6th June 2003
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Skil Controls choose brass for high precision actuator component
Skil Controls have chosen
wrought brass for a number of internal components in their extensive range
of failsafe electrically operated actuators for valve and damper
automation in remote and hazardous environments.
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7th March 2000 |
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Seminars/Lectures
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Free training and seminars for professional designers and engineers
Free seminars are available for professional designers and
engineers. View a typical programme and dates for future
events.
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Undergraduate Lecture
Programme
This lecture is being delivered to design and engineering graduates
around the country and has increased students' awareness of the
environmental and cost benefits of specifying brass.
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