As you know, our trial of refining Copper was abandoned after the distance between our instalation and the Copper field (all the way in Coronado system) was deemed as too long. Therefore, Elcano moved all it's facilities from the Storage Appendix to the Manufactoring Complex building and the equipment production continued.
But the production of equipment requires diverse materials and some friendly ships helped our traders in this regard. Said ships are flying the CSA tag, which I was informed is short for Corporate Shipping Airways. Their leader and coordinator is a certain Steve Malcom. They actually maintain a base in Coronado. This reminded me of our past trial and I thought that, since the connection is already made, we can push this relationship even forward and obtain Copper for a better price than what is offered by the IMG group residing on Pecos. And my instincts were right: Mister Malcom agreed to selling us 30.000 units of Copper for the price of 85 credits per unit.
I am extremely happy with this arrangement, as Copper is always needed both for the production of the equipment and for our traders (so that they can broker better deals for obtaining the materials we require).