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The housing market may be slow, but there is increasing demand for the protection of commercial outdoor assets, including cell towers, copper cabling and construction materials. 08.19.2008 — In Ottawa, Canada, more than 150 manhole covers were stolen in a single month. In California, during six months in 2007, nearly 1,000 incidents of scrap metal theft on farms caused more than $2 billion in losses. In Salisbury, N.C., thieves ripped the gutters off a church and sold them for scrap metal. The 80 feet of copper gutters, worth more than $2,000, yielded the robbers $189 from a local scrap yard. If you're not making money on the rising cost of copper, you should be. Rampant theft of the stuff has created huge opportunities for installers. A whole new industry has emerged to tackle copper theft, and integrators are perfectly... [read full story]
