Andy Wedgner provided a half day training course on PE100+ pipe systems to Mott MacDonald, a global engineering consultancy and members of the Anglian Water Strategic Pipeline Alliance in...
Kaymac Marine & Civil Engineering has successfully completed a challenging £8.4M project to install a new PE100 outfall pipeline in an ecologically sensitive area of the Severn Estuary in...
The first meeting of the four members of the PE100+ Association, which have production facilities in the Arabian Gulf region, was held at the Jumeirah Beach Hotel on 6 November 2024, during the...
PE 100-RC+ Quality Materials ListPE 100-RC+ materials have become an essential and well established sub-family of PE 100 compounds. They have a higher stress crack resistance and hence less risk of failure due to damage during...
The Plastics Industry Pipe Association of Australia (PIPA) has published on its website the updated guidelines for best practices in electrofusion welding, POP001 and POP001A. Polyethylene (PE100)...
Trenchless Middle East 2024: The leading trenchless technology conference and exhibition was held in Dubai, in the United Arab Emirates on 5 and 6 November. As the use of trenchless technology to...
On 2nd Sep. 2024 the PE100+ association visited the Plastic Pipe Systems sub-committee of the China National Plastic Products Standardization Technical Committee. The association’s president...
Following on from the Plastic Pipes XXI conference that was held in Florida in September 2023, the association agreed to support two spin-off conferences, the first of which was held in...
INTRODUCTION The strain hardening modulus, as defined by ISO 18488, serves as an indirect measure of the resistance to slow crack growth in polyethylene materials. This test is a prerequisite for...
We are pleased to announce that this year's PPCA spin-off conference, OZPIPE 2024 , will take place from 11-13 November 2024 in Sydney at the InterContinental Hotel. Having the...
Technical Guidance pages are updated with more information and more links. The Technical Guidance pages of the Association’s website have had a thorough update to reflect the continuing developments...
Promoting PE100 Pipe in trenchless technology at Trenchless Asia 2024 The Trenchless Asia 2024 conference and exhibition was organized by Westrade Group , supported by the International Society...
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PE100+ position letter on ANPT
(SCG) resistance on pipes for pressure applications since many years. With the introduction of PE 100-RC materials in EN 1555, EN 12201 and ISO...
PE 100-RC+ Quality Materials List
PE 100-RC+ materials have become an essential and well established sub-family of PE 100 compounds. They have a higher stress crack resistance and...
PE 100+ association leads permeation tests for H2 ready certification
A number of gas utilities and grid owners have approached the PE 100+ association regarding the suitability of PE 100 pipe systems for the...
Why choose PE compounds for pressure pipe ?
Simplicity or consistency There are two approaches to PE100 pipe manufacture: Fully compounded. The polymer producer manufactures and supplies to...
PE100+ Quality Materials List
PE100+ Quality Materials List is valid until December 2025. It is available online and a PDF version can be downloaded at the bottom of this page.
Testing methods
Creep rupture strength - Internal pressure test Constant internal pressure at constant temperature The internal pressure test is standardised in ISO...
Pipe Reaming
PIPE REAMING - TECHNIQUE Pipe reaming , also known as pipe eating , is a trenchless pipe replacement technique that removes the host pipe while at...
Pipe Bursting and Splitting
PIPE BURSTING / SPLITTING - TECHNIQUE Pipe bursting and pipe splitting are trenchless methods used to replace existing pipelines with PE100 or...
What range of pipe dimensions is available?
PE100 can be manufactured in a wide range of polyethylene pipe diameters from 16mm to 2000mm. Even larger diameters are possible with the...