EDITORIAL


In our second Bulletin of 2001, we highlighted the promotion efforts in countries of the Andean Region. Among the activities currently in progress are the revision of the technical norms on electric safety and the execution of seminars to contrast the different realities regarding issues on safety and efficiency of electrical installations.
Likewise, the Web pages of Procobre Colombia and Procobre Venezuela have been implemented, which together with Procobre Peru’s web page allow to get closer to the market’s needs of information.
The several Technical Standardization Committees continue preparing the technical norms through our campaigns on Electrical Wire for Construction, Copper Pipelines and Energy Efficiency.
We also provide information on the different training events and the presence of Procobre in Fairs, in which not only a great number of participants have been trained but diverse technical and promotional material have been handed over.
As part of our campaign Distribution Networks, we have continued visiting the provinces and the new project Horizontal Urbanizations will be presented in this issue.
We have also included in this Bulletin information on the work of Quality Standardization in Construction. Finally, we offer you an interesting note about the chocolate, an important source of copper in foods.
We hope the information issued in this Bulletin is useful to our readers.

COPPER PRESENT IN THE ANDEAN COMMUNITY

On behalf of the Copper International Association, Procobre Peru has been coordinating since last year promotion actions in the countries of the Andean Region: Colombia, Venezuela, Ecuador and Bolivia. In this opportunity, Venezuela was visited in April and Bolivia in June, where several activities were scheduled to continue gathering efforts with the copper transformation industry and similar institutions, such as: Standardization, School of Engineers, Chamber of Construction, Universities and representative Technical Institutes. For the second semester of the year, a series of activities to review the technical norms on electric safety has been scheduled. More attention will be given to the issues on Ground Connection and Dimension of Conductors. Therefore, it is important to summon all standardization institutes of each country, similar to Peru’s INDECOPI. During June we participate in the advanced international course “Grounding System” organized by the Colombian Engineers Association (Asociación Colombiana de Ingenieros – ACIEM). Likewise, Forum Seminars have been programmed on “Safety and Efficiency of Electric Installations” considering the participation of one expert from each country to compare our realities and foment the debate among attendees with respect to these important subjects. These events shall be held in the cities of Caracas, Valencia, Bogota, Cali, Medellin, Barranquilla, Guayaquil and La Paz.

VISIT OUR VIRTUAL OFFICE NETWORK

Procobre Colombia			Collect information on the publications and activities being carried out in these countries based on the information available in the virtual Web Pages of Procobre Colombia (www.procobrecolombia.org)
and Procobre Venezuela (www.procobrevenezuela.org). With these actions we intend to get closer to the market, providing professionals and final users with information on copper applications.		Procobre Venezuela

We would like to welcome CENTELSA, main manufacturer of electrical conductors in Colombia as new member of Procobre.

NEW APLICATIONS


Copper pipes in Cars: an economic and environmentally adequate alternative

Each time there are more public transportation vehicles that are being adjusted to the dual gasoline and PLG (petroleum liquated gas) system. The advantages are evident: • The price of PLG is 40% lower than gasoline. • It reduces the maintenance costs of the vehicle. • The engine’s lifetime is longer. • It is a safer system. • The system does not contaminate the environment. This adjustment implies an adequate installation of copper pipes due to its unique advantages for this application. How much copper used by a car that has been adjusted to the dual system? This system uses approximately 1,5 k per car. Back