Pipelife Hungária Kft. announces the successful investment of EUR 3 million in a Maillefer/Dreistern multilayer pipe extrusion line for the manufacture of Pex-Alu-Pex and PERT-Alu-PERT pipes for plumbing and heating applications. This investment is the first of its kind, not only for the Pipelife Group but also in Hungary. (more…)
Effective September 1, Dr. Christoph Steger has become Head of the Marketing and Product Man agement departments at Cincinnati Extrusion GmbH, Vienna. The new manager, who holds a doctor’s degree in business administration, has now taken over part of the duties previously administered by Hans Berlisg, who will retire at the end of this year. Dr. Steger has also taken charge of the Quality Management De-partment, which has up to now been the responsibility of the Managing Director, Walter Häder.
Contact: www.cet-austria.com, Steger.C@cet-austria.com, welcome@cet-austria.com.
Important IPEX Product Announcement: Effective October 31, 2008, IPEX will discontinue the production and the sale of WarmRite Floor® pipe, fittings and accessories for the North American hydronic heating market. Unfortunately, the WarmRite product line no longer meets the business targets that IPEX requires. Increased competitive pressures and poor market conditions have resulted in the continuing decline of WarmRite sales and profitability. Select WarmRite components will remain in our inventory for a period of time in order for customers to complete, maintain and service their heating systems. Our current limited warranty will continue to apply to all WarmRite products installed. IPEX would like to thank you for your continued support. We look forward to servicing your future plastic piping system needs with our broad offering of core products. We will be pleased to work with you to resolve any inconvenience that this product discontinuation may cause. More: KWD-globalpipe, 2008-11-04, No.297.
In mid-September, the 14th pipe symposium of Cincinnati Extrusion Gmbh drew an absolute record number of over 600 international visitors. On two days, the latest trends and newly developed technologies in pipe extrusion were presented.
With the six extrusion lines shown in full production, Cincinnati Extrusion demonstrated its great wealth of expertise covering an extensive range of applications.
The complete production line demonstrated in cooperation with Nexans, with a total of four extruders, two Talos 60-30 G models with screws optimized for PEX and two co-extruders, was ideally suited for high-speed applications. It reached a line speed of 40 m/min producing a 16-mm pipe with a wall thickness of 2 mm from a PEX-b resin, which came from Solvay Padanaplast. The process applied in this case was TIG butt welding.
More: KWD-globalpipe, 2008-10-28, No.296.
iBA GmbH has again underlined its position as important stimulus in the extrusion industry. iBA is the responsible Engineering Partner for the first project worldwide of its kind featuring a PEX pipe extrusion line for the production of a combined 5 layer PE-Xa and PE-Xb pipe. More: KWD-globalpipe, 2008-10-28, No.296.
