HISTORY OF

JUST-FOR-COPPER / JACO

Miles and Karen Jackson

JACO is the cooperative business of the Jackson and Coba families and specializes in bonding and thread compound materials for copper pipes, connectors, and threaded fittings.

In the early 1990’s, the government of Colombia, S. A. was searching for a copper bonding material that could be used to install the copper pipe in the natural gas infrastructure in the city of Bogotá. The bonding material could not require heat or generate heat, which eliminated epoxies.

Grupo Corassa, S. A., owned by the Coba family, formulated the product which later became trademarked as JUST-FOR-COPPER Solderless Copper Bonding. After six years of testing, it was approved by the Government of Colombia and a federal specification was written authorizing only the use of JUST-FOR-COPPER on the copper pipes within the natural gas systems throughout the country of Colombia. The first use of JUST-FOR-COPPER was in 1998. There have been millions of bonds using JUST-FOR-COPPER since that date, and there has never been a failure attributed to JUST-FOR-COPPER.

Jackson Industries, a marketing and distribution company, and Grupo Corassa formed a business relationship in 2003. Grupo Corassa manufacturers the product in Bogota, Colombia, and Jackson Industries markets JUST-FOR-COPPER around the world.

In addition to the United States of America, JUST-FOR-COPPER is sold in Canada, Mexico, Japan, European Union, Australia, and many other countries

JUST-FOR-COPPER is the only product that bonds copper that does not require heat or mixing. JFC is a single part bonding agent that forms a covalent bond with the copper that has been tested to simulate 50 years of use without failure.