Cupro
Braze
The CuproBraze project was developed in order to braze copper-brass automotive heat-transfer devices. Special anneal-resistant copper fin material, to special anneal-resistant brass headers, side-rails and fittings.
This included:
Radiators - cars, trucks, off-highway, earth-moving
Charge-air-coolers - trucks, off-highway
Heaters - cars
CuproBraze radiator
Brass tanks
Fins and tube core - brazed
CuproBraze radiator
Plastic tanks
Brazed fin-tube joint
Copper fin - brass tube
CuproBraze was originally developed by two technology teams under an International Copper Association (ICA) initiative
Outokumpu Copper Strip AB from Vasteras, Sweden
ICA developers in the US
I was engaged by Outokumpu as an Executive Consulting Engineer, based on my successful commercialization of the Aluminium Composite Deposition (CD) process in South Africa, in order to build an engineering team and guide the project from laboratory-scale to commercialization.
I brought both teams together under Outokumpu technical direction, with the ICA managing the worldwide marketing of the CuproBraze technology.
We built a solid technology that was extensively used internationally by a number of manufacturers. I traveled through around 32 countries supporting our local marketing teams, conducting over 150 technology seminars, in numerous languages.
Continuous convection brazing furnace
SecoWarwick
Continuous radiation furnace
Abbott
Two-bay batch furnace
SecoWarwick
Indexing batch furnace
Brazing Centre, Sweden
Batch furnace
RADAC, US
RADAC heavy-duty core
Louver-fin picking line
Shaaz, Russia
Louver-fin manufacturing machine
Shaaz, Russia
Charge-air-cooler
Shaaz, Russia
My friend Lars
Vasteras, Sweden