Someone who decides to build a house faces a daunting task. It’s hard enough to act as the general contractor for someone else, but when you decide to build your own house, as my parents did in the ...

At one time, aluminum was considered semiprecious. During World War II, aluminum production went into high gear as the material was needed to build airplanes and other war machines. After the war, ...

The 2026 edition of the National Electrical Code (NEC) now includes 14 AWG Copper-Clad Aluminum (CCA) as an approved conductor for 10-amp branch circuits -- a milestone that expands the acceptance of ...

The use of aluminium in wiring is unlikely to bring a smile to the face of anyone who has had to deal with it in a 1960s, or early 1970s-era house. The causes behind the fires and other accidents were ...

Talk of materials used in cars usually centers on carbon fiber and aluminum that help reduce the weight of the body, but there’s another material that is crucial to modern cars — copper. New cars are ...

Researchers at Yazaki's California r&d subsidiary, YTC America, are developing automotive wiring that offers the advantages of copper and aluminum while cutting the weight of traditional systems.

Wire processing system prepares material for Texas-based Encore Wire. Encore Wire’s Sweed Machinery system has been designed to process from 3,000 to 6,000 pounds per hour of wire and cable. The ...

Kuusakoski Oy says it is setting up a $7 million wire and cable recycling plant for “aluminum- and copper-containing materials” that will be completed next year in Heinola, Finland. The company calls ...