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Turning adversity on its tail and making it work to your advantage is what a rain chain is all about. The malleability and natural beauty of copper is used to throw up various combinations of a practically usable yet a beautiful object to match the architecture of a home. Copper rain chains are more known for their aesthetics than for their efficiency to transport water. These appear even more beautiful if you have a garden around the home. However, a rain chain on its own will not add any value, and instead will appear out of place for a simple building with no creative design in its appearance.

Separately, in Zhejiang, a source with the subsidiary of key Chinese nonferrous metals trader Wanxiang Group said China was expected to add 800,000-900,000 mt/year new copper capacity this year. "It's big enough to offset the impact from the outdated capacity shuttering," the source said. In South China, a source with the subsidiary of a Chinese copper smelter said: "Before the state's announcement, some companies with outdated facilities had already ceased using theirs, so we see minimal impact from the shuttering news." In another development, Chinese copper industry sources said the recent talk in China about using aluminum to replace copper due to rising copper prices would not have a significant impact on the copper market, citing the difficulties in using aluminum to fully substitute copper and lack of market acceptance. "Due to the performance factor, aluminum has proved unable to replace copper in many cases, so we don't see a major impact from the substitution talk on the copper market," the Antaike source said. The Wanxiang source said that some air-conditioner makers in China were trying to use aluminum to replace copper in the connecting pipes, but as aluminum pipes don't function as well as copper ones, the replacement was not popular. "As air-conditioners are inexpensive, consumers would rather buy those made using better material," he said.