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Tough, resilient pressure pipe
DPI Plastics has upgraded the tooling on its large-bore extrusion line at its Roodekop facility in Johannesburg, to extend its current range of Ultraflo PVC-M pressure pipes to include diameters of up to 630mm and a 16- bar maximum operating pressure. Ultraflo PVC-M, or mPVC, is a tough and resilient, modified PVC pressure pipe, developed to offer greater strength and toughness. Modified polyvinyl chloride has been designed specifically to provide similar tensile strength and greater resilience than standard PVC piping products. It is ideally suited to bulk water supply projects due to it being considerably more ductile than industry-standard unplasticised polyvinyl chloride. The enhanced ductility of PVC-M pipe gives it exceptional resistance to crack propagation under pressure. In addition to superior toughness, PVC-M has reduced wall thickness. This translates into less raw materials during the manufacturing process, and ultimately a lighter product that is easier to transport and install, thereby minimising its total carbon footprint.
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