Items Tagged with 'Plastics Pipe Institute'

Guidance for techniques proven in pressure piping systems during decades of use.

Pressure and chlorine ratings revised.

The new document covers HDPE water pipelines up to 60-inch diameter and 10,000-foot-long pull.

Called ‘Training Shorts,’ the teaching modules focus on piping materials such as CPVC, HDPE, PEX, PE-RT, PP. 

PM Engineer Chief Editor Nicole Krawcke sits down with Lance MacNevin, director of engineering, building and construction division of the Plastics Pipe Institute, to discuss top trends influencing the use of plastic pipes in commercial applications.

PPI MS-8 is intended to be a guide to support engineers, designers, and specifiers of plumbing and mechanical piping systems with language that can be copied and pasted into design documents to ensure that the latest requirements for polypropylene piping materials are used. 

McKinnon has more than twenty years of engineering and training experience developing new curriculum and training modules. 

The information in MAB-01-2022 is highly important to the successful installation of HDPE water piping systems.

PPI President David M. Fink presented the award to Palermo during the association’s annual meeting in May. PPI is the major North American trade association representing the plastic pipe industry.

The report provides information about the effects that various chemicals can have on plastic piping materials.