- Spell Capital Partners, Uponor Aldyl
Company.
Spell Capital Partners of Minneapolis, MN, through PW Poly Corporation of Hastings, NE, a subsidiary of PW Eagle, has acquired Uponor Aldyl Company. PW Eagle is a manufacturer of PVC pipe products and is the second largest PVC pipe maker in the U.S. The company manufactures pipe and tubing through ......
- PVC adapts as viable solution for trenchless
market.
PVC (polyvinyl chloride) pipe accounts for a significant portion of the nation's underground utility infrastructure. The amount of PVC pipe used for utility applications has steadily increased over the past 40-plus years, reaching the point that PVC is the pipe of choice in the United States for potable water and ......
- CertainTeed.
CertainTeed Corporation's Polyvinyl Chloride (PVC) pipe plant in Lodi, CA, has joined the elite Saint-Gobain Millionaires' Club, having logged 1 million hours of operation without a lost-time accident. The Lodi facility is the tenth CertainTeed plant, and the first from the company's Pipe and Plastics Group, to join the Millionaires ......
- Iberville turns Dow gift into a diamond
J. Mitchell Ourso Jr. makes no secret of lberville Parish's dependence on industry. That's why Ourso, the Iberville Parish president, is so pleased that Grand Island, Neb.-based Diamond Plastics Corp. is choosing to build a polyvinyl chloride (PVC) pipe manufacturing plant there instead of next door in West Baton Rouge ......
- Down the drain
HEADNOTE PRODUCTS HEADNOTE PRODUCTS AND TOOLS EVERY BUILDER SHOULD KNOW ABOUT * EDITED BY SCOTT MILANO HEADNOTE Greenpeace condemns PVC pipe despite its widespread appeal in the building products industry. IMAGE PHOTOGRAPH 3 WATER WAY: Made from CPVC, the FlowGuard Gold hot-and-cold water distribution system is designed for single- and ......
- Understanding the strengths of PE,
PVC.
The amount of plastic pipe in the world's utility infrastructure increases each year as new pipes are installed and segments of old pipe are replaced by pipe made of plastic. Most of the pipe transporting natural gas today is made of plastic. Drinking water and water used by industrial facilities ......
- Plastics Pipe Institute.
The Plastics Pipe Institute (PPI) elected a new president at its annual meeting in May in Hilton Head, SC. Michael Byrne of Performance Pipe, a division of Chevron Phillips Chemical Company, takes over for Paul van Warmerdam of KWH Pipe. More than 230 representatives of PPI's membership also elected several ......