globalpipe  by KWD

Charlotte Pipe and Foundry Co. has opened a new plastic pipe manufacturing plant in Cedar City, UT, about 250 miles south of Salt Lake City. The plant will produce PVC and ABS pipe and FlowGuard Gold® CPVC-CTS pipe for domestic water applications.
Charlotte Pipe and Foundry offers the most complete line of FlowGuard Gold CPCV pipe and fittings in the industry. With our recent acquisition of Thompson Plastics in Huntsville, AL, Charlotte Pipe has added even more FlowGuard Gold products to its line. We produce FlowGuard Gold pipe, fittings, adapters, transition fittings, drop-ear 90 degrees, Slabguard and more. (weiterlesen…)

Reliance received the PE 100 certification from M/s Bodycote, Sweden for the product PE pipe grade Relene 46GP003, manufactured at Gandhar. This certification has enabled Reliance’s entry into the select group of 11 manufacturers to have received the PE 100 certification amongst 440 PE manufacturers present globally.
This is a rare achievement with RIL being the only Indian and seventh Asian producer to get this most coveted certification for this very critical application. Reliance would leverage this certification coupled with our in-house capability to produce PE Pipes to create a differentiated platform for our PE pipe brands. PE 100 Polyethylene Pipe Grade is a novel addition to the family of Polyethylene Pipes manufactured by Reliance.
Pipes made out of PE 100 grades have outstanding pressure and abrasion resistance, superior stress crack resistance and provide a higher margin of safety. These pipes find extensive use in applications for gas and water distribution, effluent disposal etc. and can withstand 10 MPA of stress for 50 years, @ 20o C, (with no brittle failure). More: KWD-globalpipe, 2008-05-27, No.282.

INEOS NOVA is increasing the price at which it sells expandable polystyrene (EPS) in Europe by 100 Euro per tonne, effective 1st June 2008.
This increase is necessary because of continuing large increases in feedstock costs, and because margins in EPS have slipped to unsustainably low levels. The timing is good as demand is expected to be strong at this time of year.
More: www.ineos-nova.com, media@ineos-nova.com .

The 2008 RE X (Radiant EXPO) will be held at the new Renaissance Hotel and Convention Center from Aug. 13-15, 2008(USA).
Many new companies with new products displaying the latest in technology are signing up along with past participants who also have many new and improved technologies to exhibit. Booths featuring radiant heating and cooling products and services will populate the exhibit hall with products for heated and cooled floors, walls and ceilings. (weiterlesen…)

LyondellBasell Industries, a leading global supplier of innovative polyolefins to the pipe market, has developed a new range of developmental polybutene-1 (PB-1) resins, marketed under the tradename Akoafloor that can be used by customers in surface heating and cooling pipe systems that outperform traditional materials. The resins are initially being targeted at the Chinese market. (weiterlesen…)

Still think PEX tubing isn’t right for you?
This contemporary piping technique isn’t just for radiant panel heating. With the price of metal pipe climbing even higher you can’t afford to overlook this cost saving opportunity.
Thursday, June 12, 2008 at 1:00 pm ET: Traditional hydronic piping arrangements were developed around rigid metal pipe. When PEX tubing arrived in North America, many heating professionals assumed it was limited to radiant panel heating. However, the versatility of PEX and PEX-AL-PEX tubing extends far beyond such assumptions. (weiterlesen…)

Masco Corporation (MAS) announced that it has sold its European based The Heating Group for a price of approximately $155 million to an affiliate of Vaessen Industries, headed by Jos Vaessen (the former owner of Vasco !). (weiterlesen…)

LyondellBasell’s world-scale Hostalen Advanced Cascade Process (ACP) 320 KT per year HDPE plant, located in Wesseling, Germany, has produced one million tonnes of prime HDPE grades since start-up in 2004. (weiterlesen…)