Nordic Copper products now distributed by VM Building Solutions in the German market
March 8, 2024
Starting from March 2024, Nordic Copper products are distributed in Germany exclusively by VM Building Solutions.
VM Building Solutions specializes in high-quality roofing and façade materials, including the VMZinc brand. The company shares our focus on durability, sustainable construction with natural materials and comprehensive recycling options.
The Nordic Copper product range includes copper, brass and bronze products for roofs and façades as well as interior fittings. Precise control of the natural oxidation and patination process allows for a wide range of different colors and textures. As a result, Nordic Copper offers the widest range of copper products on the German and international market.
Aurubis Finland Oy has updated its Life Cycle Analysis (LCA). Based on the results, the company has calculated the Environmental Product Declaration (EPD) for Nordic Copper products.
According to the calculations, the CO₂emissions for some architectural copper products produced in Finland have reduced by more than 20%.
Improvements in production have resulted in greater energy efficiency and lower emissions per copper ton. Fossil fuel consumption has decreased since the company has switched to using electric forklifts.
Environmental Product Declarations (EPDs) are available in Download Center – Nordic Copper
Villa L3 in Turku, Finland, designed by SIGGE Architects and featuring Nordic Copper cladding, has won the prestigious BIG SEE Architecture Award 2023 in the residential category. The BIG SEE Architecture Awards ceremony took place in Ljubljana, Slovenia on May 19th 2023.
Villa L3 is a modern and clean-lined house that acknowledges the surrounding nature. The client’s wish was to achieve not only an interesting appearance, but also a comfortable home that offers a natural marriage of everyday and holiday living. It was important to the client to obtain a simple and streamlined structure that would also age gracefully.
The second floor of Villa L3 is a completely open-plan living and dining space, encased in copper and affording spectacular views. In addition to the pre-oxidized copper cladding, the exterior incorporates larch battening to introduce architectural detail and create a warm ambiance.
Suomenlinna Church was built in 1854 and is a historically significant Finnish building. Suomenlinna is on the Unesco world heritage list as a unique memorial of military architecture. The master tower of the church is the only one left from the five original dome towers. The key point in renewing the copper roof of the master tower was that it should resemble the old one by colour as much as possible. Sauli Saarinen, the foreman of Suomen Saneeraustalo, Wilhelm Helander, a professor at Helander-Leiviskä Architects, and Jaakko Penttilä, a project architect, in cooperation with the Finnish Heritage Agency, selected the one that most closely resembles the old roof from Nordic Copper. “The architects had a big role in this, the result was excellent, it doesn’t look painted and specially treated, but it looks real old copper. Aurubis patinated the copper brilliantly”, says Saarinen.
“The view of Suomenlinna Church in the Helsinki skyline is significant, that’s why the patination of the master tower was so important”, says project-architect Jaakko Penttilä and highlights the cooperation with the National Board of Antiquities. The new copper roof does not just resemble the old one, but was actually made from recycling the original copper. So the spirit of the old copper roof continues into the future. Sauli Saarinen says that copper is excellent roof material: “It is very easy to handle, it is almost eternal and it won’t ever rust, the copper retains its value even as a scrap metal”. This is surely the reason why the success of patinated copper as a roof material increases all the time, “in the last three years it is almost the only material we have used”, says Sauli Saarinen.
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