Metals and minerals will help bring your celebrations to life this season

From festive lights to feasts, sparkling gifts to stunning tabletops, many of our holiday traditions make surprising use of metals and minerals.

Here are 7 festive favourites that our products may be helping to produce this season.

Twinkling lights
Whether they’re wrapped around a tree, lining the streets, decorating your home or decking out the shops, festive lights are synonymous with the start of the holiday celebrations. And there’s one metal that really makes your lights light up: copper.

As the best non-precious conductor of electricity on the planet, copper is used to make the wiring in all sorts of electronic lights, including most festive lights.

You might also spare a thought for aluminium and lithium, which could help you to achieve an energy efficient seasonal sparkle as components in your solar panels and rechargeable batteries. see & read more on
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