Industry: ACR sector

The sector

The Air Conditioning & Refrigeration (ACR) sector is constantly expanding as it meets the demand for wellbeing and comfort, as well as health and safety for the user: temperature is a key prominence for humankind and the development of urban areas, global warming and the need to store food, requiring careful attention to room temperatures.

In this context, the use of a metal like copper is essential, as it is the ideal material for producing the piping found inside air conditioning units and used to convey refrigerant fluids. This is thanks to the ease of use of this noble metal, its resistance to pressure, temperature and corrosion that is not easy to find in other materials. It also has an exceptional capacity to heat change and duration as well as performance that make it the ideal choice for the needs of this sector. If one thinks, for example, of heat exchanger arrays in heat pumps that need to be resistant to mechanical strain, they are manufactured in inert material with respect to the refrigerant fluids and above all, have a high heat exchange capacity; all this can be found only in copper.

Another of copper’s strong points regards its pliability. This means that piping with very thin walls (0,28mm) can be produced which, while maintaining its mechanical resistance specifications, allows for the production of lightweight machinery. Furthermore, the excellent malleability of this metal means compact coils can be manufactured, with a high exchange/volume surface ratio.