Indian Copper Development Centre

The Indian Copper Development Centre (ICDC) is a non-trading and non-profit making organisation. It was founded in the year 1966 in the historic city of Calcutta (now called Kolkata), initially as a branch of erstwhile International Copper Development Council, CIDEC, Geneva. It was reborn in 1976, on the dissolution of the parent body, as Indian Copper Information Centre, a registered Indian Society recognised by the Department of Science & Technology, Government of India, as a Scientific Research body devoted to the cause of copper and copper alloys. In 1986, the Centre was renamed as Indian Copper Development Centre (ICDC) in line with its change in outlook from just an information dissemination body to one capable of providing a more comprehensive range of services aimed at overall growth and development of copper based industry comprising of both manufacturers and users.