News : Plumbing

Yorkshire Copper Tube’s Commercial Director, Neil Overton, has called for the government to review its laws on metal scrappage to help plumbers across the UK.

It comes as metal theft continues to rise, which leaves businesses out of pocket and unable to complete planned jobs.

When trading in scrap metal in other parts of Europe people are required to give their full personal details and a bank account for money to...

Yorkshire Copper Tube toured the UK in September to showcase two new renewable energy products to the thousands of visitors at the inaugural Renewables Roadshow events.

Q-Tec®, a reduced thickness copper plumbing tube with polyethylene covering and HYPOPLAN®, a KME concealed wall heating system, are not currently available in the UK and Yorkshire Copper Tube used the exhibitions as a test platform to gauge opinion...

Copper tube became art when Dublin based artist and sculptor Deirdre O’Daly Judge chose the material for her stunning new work, ‘Orb Weaver’.

Created using tube manufactured by Yorkshire Copper Tube, wire and bespoke glass pieces, the spherical sculpture is fixed to a steel stand and base and was developed from an earlier work by the artist, ‘Vertical Gardens’.

The piece, which took over two months to design and...

According to a survey of more than 10,000 contractors and merchants, Yorkshire Copper Tube is the most recognisable copper tube brand in the UK.

In addition over 93 per cent of contractors regularly use copper for their plumbing installations and 14.1 per cent of these will only use Yorkshire’s products.

The survey, which was carried out in the late summer by an independent company, also revealed that Yorkshire...

Following the huge success of Yorkshire Copper Tube’s visit to PHEX in April the company has signed up to the Manchester and Chelsea events.

It will exhibit at Old Trafford on Wednesday 13th and Thursday 14th October and at Stamford Bridge on Tuesday 23rd and Wednesday 24th November as part of its 60th anniversary celebrations of successful manufacture in Kirkby, Liverpool.

The copper tubing specialist, which...

Yorkshire Copper Tube is constantly on the lookout for new and exciting ways to connect with valued customers.

With this in mind, it is releasing its very own CD ROM in its latest expedition into the digital age.

It forms part of the celebrations for the 60th anniversary of manufacturing copper tube in Kirkby near Liverpool.

Packed with information about what Yorkshire Copper Tube does and how it does it, there...

The winner of Yorkshire Copper Tube’s latest competition has lots of celebrations in the pipeline this year and a £300 hotel voucher prize is the icing on the cake.

Christopher Watson, who is the second generation to run J Watson Plumbing in Blackburn, has been using Yorkshire’s copper tubing since he started his career 34 years ago.

His father, Joseph, started the business in 1950, which coincides with...