铜被其他材料替代,从而使铜市场受到损失,对于铜生产企业来说一直是个隐忧,企业虽然已经讨论过这种损失的程度,但很少加以量化。CRU利用自己的数据体系对历史上由于这种替代造成的损失和替代过程的结果进行评估,并对替代因素、受到影响的主要产品及其使用,以及替代的主要驱动器——价格、技术变化和法规进行了分析。 Copper has been replaced by other materials, leaving the copper market suffered losses for copper producers has been a hidden concern, although the extent of this loss has been discussed, but rarely quantified. CRU uses its own data system to evaluate historically the losses caused by such substitutions and the outcome of the substitution process, as well as the substitution factors, the main products affected and their use, and the main drivers of substitution - price, technological change and Regulations were analyzed.