How Transparent PVC-U Turns Green to Produce Food and Fuel

Author(s) : Christian Schalich

Plastic pipes for infrastructure and building applications are precisely specified with regards to wall thickness and diameter. Pipe manufacturers use different measuring methods in order to ensure the required dimensional accuracy and maintain a constant high quality. This paper introduces a measuring system based on...

Author(s) : White G. Jee, Wes Long, Marcello Russo

In 2018, the North American HDPE pressure pipe market experienced unprecedented demand and growth especially in the region of the Permian basin in west Texas. 1 As aninnovative means of increasing HDPE pipe supply in this region, the first modular mobile extrusion plant was moved to Pecos, TX. Using custom designed...

Author(s) : Zhanjie Wang, Yan Zhao, Melody Guo, Yanju Fan, Wei Tang

In the past ten years, China's plastic pipe industry has maintained a steady growth and made great progress in the upgrading of industrial structure, technological innovation, and improvement of quality levels. However, at the same time, in the face of the complex changes in the current economic situation, especially...

Author(s) : Christian Schalich

This paper introduces a new technology based on millimeter waves. It provides a noncontact, non-destructive, online measurement of inner and outer diameter, ovality, wall thicknesses, and sagging (sagging of the melt during solidification at a too high viscosity) of large plastic pipes during the extrusion...

Author(s) : Bülent Kuzkaya

Spiral wound pipes are becoming more and more important in larger diameter HDPE pipe production technology. The spiral wound structured wall pipes with profiles are already well known and used for several low or non-pressure pipe applications. This paper shows that spiral wound pressure pipes can fulfill the...

Author(s) : Dane Tallen

Update on paper given at last Plastics Pipes conference. An update on market trends in PVC stabilizer design, global PVC pipe market development and implications for lubrication package design. PVC is a well-established material used worldwide for different applications such as window profiles, technical profiles,...

Author(s) : Vilnis Puce

Plastic pipe systems have more than 80 years of history. Plastic pipes have successfully managed to replace various traditional materials by providing reliable, noncorrosive, leak tight pipeline solutions. As pipes are not the only components of piping systems, logically would be to see the similar development of...

Author(s) : Davidovski Zoran,

The European Plastics Pipes and Fittings Association (TEPPFA) and it Application Group Civils working group initiated a new project at the beginning of 2015, to find a way of improving the communication and promotion of TEPPFA and its projects to the industry. This project was divided into the two phases with the...

Author(s) : Giorgio Santella

The presentation focuses on the latest system solutions in storage, blending and feeding of main materials and additives, featuring the three main advantages that guarantee a continuous and profitable production of plastic pipes: flexibility, reliability and automation. The main element of modern design to obtain...

Author(s) : Tomoyuki Kobayashi, Shigeru Ogasawara, Satoshi Nishijima, Hiroki Ohzeki, Shinichi Nishiyama

In this paper, it is reported the development and product design of CIPP with Biomass resin, “Furan resin”. To satisfy the both properties of Long Pot-life and enough curing speed of resin as the application of CIPP, latest hardener of acid catalyst was very effective to achieve the both properties shown above. And to...

Author(s) : Rob G. Spekreijse, Johann Bryan

Producing PVC is a competitive market. Unless special products are produced like larger sizes or OPVC, the competiveness is important. Therefore the real issue becomes the saving of cost in producing pipe from PVC. There are many ways of saving costs and that issue must be considered in production companies making...

Author(s) : Yuji Higuchi, Kazuhiro Nishimoto, Takeshi Mise, Eiji Takenaka, Markus Hartmann

This study explores the Japanese market for polyamide 12 (PA12) pipes in terms of new product market success. To gain the market penetration, there are various entry barriers for the new product in the new market field which has big distance between current marketing areas and target country. In spite of becoming...

Author(s) : Dr. Udo Anders

PVC is a well-established material used worldwide for different applications such as window profiles, technical profiles, cables and sheets. Usage of PVC for pipes covers pressurized potable water applications as well as sewage systems, conduit, gas piping systems, gutters and fittings. Pb-based stabilizers have been...

Author(s) : André Nijland, Frans Alferink

PVC-U is used around the globe for potable water supply and sewer applications. This is due to its strength and stiffness as well as to its excellent flow properties. PVC-U shows an excellent performance in protecting the potable water quality. And it is registered that failure rates of PVCU pipelines are very low....

Author(s) : Dennis Jarnecke

The Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration (PHMSA) published the final rule establishing integrity management requirements for gas distribution pipeline systems on December 4, 2009 (Distribution Integrity Management Programs - DIMP). The regulation requires operators, such as natural gas distribution...

Author(s) : Mohamed Hageb, Roger Jepson, Mohana Murali

Throughout the financial crisis in the West, governments and businesses in the Middle East and Asia have continued to invest in industry confident that low labour costs or low feedstock and mineral costs would ensure that they remained competitive. Also many large water and wastewater projects have been continued,...

Author(s) : Zoran Davidovski

VinylPlus is the new 10 year sustainability commitment of the PVC value chain in Europe, built around five challenges for the sustainable future of PVC in our society. An important target within Challenge 5 - “Sustainability Awareness” is the market launch of a product label by 2013. This document contains the set of...

Author(s) : Randall J. Knapp

The “Pipeline Inspection, Protection, Enforcement and Safety Act of 2006” required the Department of Transportation (DOT) to establish a regulation prescribing standards for integrity management programs for distribution pipeline operators. The Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration (PHMSA) published...