Butt fusion welding machine
Construction Advantages
The combination of flexibility and leak free joints allow for unique and cost effective types of installation methods that the rigid PVC and Ductile Iron pipes can’t use with bell and spigot connections. These alternate installation methods (Horizontal Directional Drilling, Pipe Bursting, Sliplining, Plow and Plant, Submerged or Floating Pipe, etc.) can save considerable time and money in most potable water applications.
Polyethylene pipe is produced in straight lengths up to 50 foot long and coiled in diameters up through 6”. Coiled lengths over 1000ft are available depending on size providing low cost installations.
Polyethylene is about one-eighth the density of steel, it does not require the use of heavy lifting equipment for installation.
Cost Effective, Long Term and Permanent
Polyethylene pipe installations are cost effective and have long term cost advantages due to its physical properties, leak free joints and reduced maintenance costs.
The polyethylene pipe industry estimates a service life for HDPE pipe to conservatively be 50-100 years. This relates to savings in replacement costs for generations to come. Also thanks to the butt fusion welding machine, easy to weld, save more cost and time.
Corrosion and Chemical Resistant
HDPE pipe will not corrode, tuberculate or support biological growth.
HDPE pipe has superb chemical resistance and is the material of choice in harsh chemical environments
The advantages of corrosion and chemical resistance over traditional metal pipes are shared by many plastic pipes, but HDPE pipe uniquely combines these attributes with the aforementioned advantages of heat fused joints, flexibility and fatigue resistance.