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Technology News
84 September 2012
Tungsten carbide
insert for outside
tube scarfing
HSS-DMo5 saw blades
& friction circular
saw blades
CON.T.R.A.S.T.
Impeder core for
high frequency
welding of tubes
Fiberglass pipes
for impeder
core
CON.T.R.A.S.T.
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PCT introduces advanced pipe
coiling and delivery system
PCT has introduced a unique pipe coiling
and delivery system that provides the
ability to coil pipes PE100 up to DN250
x 250m without vehicle escorts.
PCT’s well-established low ovality
coiling technology has been combined
with its newly developed, unique multi-
trailer road train design which enables
pipe manufacturers to deliver 3x250m
coils of DN250 in one delivery.
The trailer design also allows free-
standing coils or reels of pipe to
be dispensed via the built-in roller
supports. This is only possible with the
use of Low Ovailty Technology coiling
machinery which allows the pipe to be
coiled at these tighter bending ratios.
Smaller pipe sizes can also be coiled
and transported, for example, the three
trailers would carry over 1km of DN180
in three lengths with less than 5 per cent
pipe ovality occurring.
“Combining Low Ovality Coiling
Technology with our newly developed
delivery system allows pipe
manufacturers to see the huge cost
and time savings associated with
transporting very long lengths of pipe
and minimal jointing”, says Iain Wallace,
PCT.
“If you take into account the ability in
some countries for road trains to exceed
our three trailer European limit, this
length can very easily be extended to
four or five trailers per road train for long
distance transport.”
Coils can be unloaded on-site
or alternatively, each trailer can be
dropped at points equal to the pipe coil
length ready for an on-site tow vehicle
to lay-out. Either way, this provides
the ability to string out and only make
three butt welds before a string of pipe
is ready for installation compared to
having to make 20 times the number
of welds if the same pipe (DN250) is
delivered in 12m stick lengths. PCT Ltd
is a privately owned company based
in Newcastle, UK with subsidiaries
in the USA and China. The company
designs and supplies coiling, handling
and packaging solutions for flexible
products such as plastic pipe, sub-sea
umbilical, power cables, flow-lines and
steel wire rope.
PCT – UK
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