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Plast ic pipes
Silver-Line certifies another facility
The Plastic Pipe and Fittings Association
(PPFA) has announced that Silver-
Line Plastics, the first North American
plastic pipe producer to be certified
to PPFA’s Sustainable Manufacturing
Conformity Assessment Program for
Plastic Piping Components (SM-CAP),
has added its Fort Pierce, Florida,
facility to the certification. All of Silver-
Line’s manufacturing facilities (North
Carolina, Oklahoma and Florida) have
now earned certification.
The programme certifies reductions
in a manufacturer’s year-over-year
environmental footprint by careful
analysis and measurement of resource
use. Ricky Silver, president and CEO of
Silver-Line Plastics, said, “We strongly
believe in the programme PPFA has
established, which encourages all
manufacturers in our industry to join us
in an effort to improve our environmental
footprint and create efficiencies in our
manufacturing processes. Having all of
our facilities certified to the programme
is a significant accomplishment for
our company, considering that this
challenging programme requires us to
examine all of our resource usage and
operational processes.”
Certification to SM-CAP means that a
facility meets the requirements set forth
in PPFA’s Sustainable Manufacturing
Standard (SMS-01-2012). The standard
establishes requirements for measuring
both the existing environmental
performance and the continuous
improvement by manufacturers of
plastic piping system components.
SMS 01-2012 applies to those who
manufacture plastic piping system
components and to the resources used
in the manufacturing process. SM-CAP
creates year-to-year reductions in water
use, energy use, packaging materials
waste, material conversion efficiency,
and product material waste. In addition,
criteria are set to promote plant safety,
safe product use, continual participation
in industry life cycle analysis, maintaining
certification for American National
Standards governing product quality
and safety.
Richard Church, PPFA’s executive
director stated, “Our members felt PPFA
needed to create a programme that
challenged the industry to continue to
improve the process to leave less and
less of an environmental footprint.”
Plastic Pipe and Fittings Association
– USA
Silver-Line Plastics Corp – USA
Thermoplastic pipemarket to
reach 576million tons by 2019
The report ‘Thermoplastic Pipe Market
by Polymer Types (PE, PVDF, PVC,
PA, and PP) Application (Oil & Gas,
Mining & Dredging and Chemicals) and
Geography (APAC, Americas, Europe,
Middle East and Africa) – Global Trends
& Forecasts to 2019’, published by
MarketsandMarkets, defines and
segments the thermoplastic pipe market
with analysis and forecasting of volume
for thermoplastic pipes. It also identifies
driving and restraining factors for the
thermoplastic pipe market with analysis
of trends and opportunities.
The market applications for
thermoplastic pipe include oil and gas,
municipal, mining and dredging, and
chemicals. The oil and gas application
of thermoplastic pipes is estimated to
grow with an increasing demand for
flexible pipes, umbilicals and risers.
In 2013, Asia-Pacific was the largest
market for thermoplastic pipe and
accounted for a market share of about
40.7 per cent.
The thermoplastic pipe market is
projected to grow at a CAGR of 7.8
per cent, with increasing demand in the
Asia-Pacific region.
The increase in demand for municipal
and chemical applications in this region
is the prime driver for market growth.
The leading companies in thermoplastic
pipe continuously invest in R&D to
introduce new products and solutions
according to market demand.
Considering the demand in the market,
these companies are also expanding
their facilities to increase production
capacity and strengthen their global
networks.
MarketsandMarkets – USA
Engineering plastics
Samruddhi Engineering is a
manufacturer of engineering plastic
such as ABS, PP, HDPE pipes,
tubes, rods, sleeves and profiles. The
company has operated in this field since
1995, and has been ISO 9001:2008
certified since 1999. The company
manufactures tubes and pipes with
outside diameters ranging from 10
to 165mm, and thicknesses from
0.4 to 10mm. It has also developed
cathode edge strips for mining and
extraction industries. Applications
for the company’s products include
tube for medical surgical tape, tube
for special insulation tape, suction
tubes for chemical pumps, PP lining
for chemical pipe lines, ABS tube
for antennae, and tubes for vacuum
cleaners. The ABS cathode edge strips
are used in copper, zinc, manganese,
gold, silver and nickel electrolysis for
cathode plate.
Samruddhi Engineering – India