2025 Press Releases

Copper Development Association Welcomes Chicago Extruded Metals as New Member
CDA proudly welcomes Chicago Extruded Metals (CXM) as its newest member. Founded in 1923, CXM has a long and rich history of industry service and leadership – including being one of the founding members of CDA in 1962. This renewed strategic partnership underscores a mutual commitment to moving the industry forward, and to applying the CDA membership’s collective knowledge base to help solve society’s most pressing challenges and opportunities.

Copper Development Association Welcomes The Federal Metal Company as New Member
CDA proudly welcomes The Federal Metal Company as its newest member. Founded in 1913, Federal Metal has a strong legacy in innovation cast from over a century of experience. As a leading producer of brass, bronze, lead-free and specialty copper alloy ingots, Federal Metal provides a vast range of solutions for foundries in the U.S. and beyond. Moreover, Federal’s exciting capabilities in recycling aluminum copper radiators are also driving industry circularity by helping copper and brass mills increase recycled content in their products.

Copper Is Critical—USGS 2025 Draft List Makes It Official
CDA applauds USGS’s action to include copper on the draft 2025 Critical Minerals list. The data is clear: Critical Minerals status for copper is a national strategic imperative to counter rising imports and the concentration of production in China. Today, USGS, Secretary Burgum, and President Trump sent a strong signal that copper is critical to the United States of America. CDA and its members stand ready to unleash American copper like never before.

An Open Letter to Secretary Burgum, Department of Interior, August 5, 2025
I write to you again from the Copper Development Association (CDA), the North American based not-for-profit association of the copper industry, bringing together the North American copper and copper alloy semis fabricators and global copper mining and production industries. I’d like to follow up on my letter of March 10th with new data supporting our belief that copper belongs on the United States Geological Survey (USGS) Critical Mineral list – set to be released this year.

CDA celebrates 10 winning projects in its 18th annual North American Copper in Architecture Awards
CDA celebrates 10 winning projects in its 18th annual North American Copper in Architecture Awards

CDA Applauds Executive Action to Boost U.S. Copper Supply
The Copper Development Association (CDA) today issued the following statement from Adam Estelle, President and CEO, in response to President Trump’s Executive Order “Immediate Actions to Increase American Mineral Production,” signed March 20, 2025.

An Open Letter to Secretary Burgum
I write from the Copper Development Association (CDA), the North American based not-for-profit association of the copper industry, bringing together the North American copper and copper alloy semis fabricators and global copper mining and production industries, to bring awareness to the increased need for copper to be recognized as a critical mineral. CDA requests your assistance to exercise your statutory authority under section 7002(c)(4)(B) of the Energy Act of 2020 to immediately designate copper as an official Critical Mineral by the United States Geological Survey (USGS).

Manufacturers now have another reason to choose brass for drinking water system components.
Manufacturers of certain brass applications, including pipe fittings, valves, meters and pumps, may now be exempt from recurring NSF 61 testing and certification requirements that assess whether products leach unsafe levels of 14 regulated metals, including lead, arsenic and chromium.

An Open Letter to President Donald J. Trump
Dear Mr. President, On behalf of the Copper Development Association (CDA), a U.S. based not-for-profit organization representing the copper industry, I extend our congratulations on your election. We look forward to collaborating to achieve our shared goals: establishing America as the world’s leading energy producer, transforming the United States into a manufacturing powerhouse with products proudly made in America, and revitalizing our cities into safe, clean, and thriving spaces.

CDA welcomes entries for its 2025 North American Copper in Architecture Awards (NACIA)
CDA welcomes entries for its 2025 North American Copper in Architecture Awards (NACIA)