Truly international membership currently comprising 11 member companies: Borealis, Borouge, INEOS O&P, IRPC, lyondellBasell, PetroChina Dushanzi Petrochemical Company, Prime Polymer, SABIC, SCG & Thai Polyethylene, Sinopec, and Tasnee.

Why PE100+ Association

PE100+ Testimonials

Member Companies

The Advisory Committee

Governance of the Association

Compliance Guidelines

Meetings and reports

Becoming Member

PE100+ Materials

The PE100+ Association promotion of quality relies on the principle of rigorous quality control done by external, independent test institutes.

Testing Institutes

Why choose PE compounds for pressure pipe ?

Quality Materials List

Test Requirements

Testing schedule

Testing methods

Sustainability : environmental position paper

First Examples of Reference Installations of PE 100+ pipes

PE technical guidance

HDPE technical guidance

The HDPE Pipe Model, developed by the PE100+ Association with inputs from many industry experts, includes the most frequently asked questions and answers (Q&A's) of all the elements through the pipe system value chain: design, materials, construction, operation & maintenance, and environmental issues.

PE Pipe Manual

Pipe dimensionning

No-Dig technical Guide

PACE+ design tool

PE Pipes for Contaminated Land [PE]

Hill

# 1998 Gothenburg

Polyethylene has many virtues as a material for underground potable water hstribution pipes. Unlike ferrous metals, it is totally immune to corrosion, and is extremely resistant to chemical attack from any aqueous media. However it has one minor weakness - it is slightly permeable to hydrocarbons, and other organic species. When buried in former industrial land that is contaminated with these materials, minute quantities may penetrate the pipe wall and generate undesirable taste and odour to the delivered water. This is still a very uncommon event, but legslation and increasing environmental pressure to preserve the countryside and re-use former industrial land in city areas, plus a need to pre-empt a less desirable alternative, has g v e n emphasis for a solution.

Please note that the whole article content is available on PPCA website onlySource : 1998 Gothenburg

Author(s) : David Hill Jean Carmier 2012 Barcelona

A multilayer pipe named Excel Plus® made with a protective inner layer in PVDF was developed by GPS PE Pipe Systems, an Aliaxis group subsidiary. In order to assess, in accelerated mode, the resistance of this pipe against chlorine dioxide, a test sample exposure facility was built at the Aliaxis corporate R&D...

20+ Years Experience with PE Pipe for Water in the UK

Author(s) : Headford, Hill, Wilson 2004 Milan

The United Kingdom is the most highly developed PE pressure pipe market in the world. Following pioneering work done in the USA and Germany, it was the UK that was first to adopt PE on a large scale for gas, and then for water distribution. The 100% PE policy of British Gas, and wide range of sizes used (at low...

Butt Fusion Welding of Large Diameter/Thick Wall Pipes

Author(s) : Hill, Wilson, Headford 2001 Munich

Butt fusion welding is the most reliable and unobtrusive method of joining PE pipes (and spigot fittings) of virtually any size-except perhaps the smallest where other methods are usually preferred. It is the dominant method of jointing both medium and large pipe sizes, but for different reasons. In medium pipe sizes...

Developments of Flowstop Systems for Large Diameter PE Mains

Author(s) : Morgan, Hill 2001 Munich

Transco, part of the Lattice Group, is the largest Public Gas Transporter in Great Britain. It currently operates a Distribution system of some 250,000 kilometers. Developments in polyethylene pipe technology have led to an ongoing increase in the size of pipe being laid in the U.K. Currently, pipes up to 630 mm...

Assessment of Pipe Systems, Condition and Residual Life

Author(s) : Hill 1998 Gothenburg

It is almost 30 years since BG ple (formerly British Gas) installed the first polyethylene gas distribution pipeline in the United Kingdom. At that time, there was little experience in the failure mechanisms associated with PE materials and therefore the predicted lifetime, although scientifically sound in approach...

Development of a UK Specification for PE Barrier Pipes

Author(s) : Shepherd, Water, Hill 2008 Budapest