Plastic Piping

There are a lot of reasons to choose plastic piping than anything else available in the market. It offers multiple benefits for you. Here are some of the reasons why:

Corrosion Resistance
Plastics are immune to galvanic or electrolytic erosion. Due to this, plastic pipe can be buried in acidic, alkaline, wet or dry soils and protective coatings are not required.

Sustainability
A significant benefit of plastic pipe is its small ecological impact compared to other materials.

Chemical Resistance
The selection of materials available allows a wide array of chemical solutions to be handled successfully by plastic piping.

Low Thermal Conductivity
This feature conserves more uniform temperatures when transporting fluids in plastic than in metal piping. The short current conductivity of the wall of plastic piping may eradicate or reduce greatly the need for pipelines. This is to control sweating.

Flexibility
In general, thermoplastic piping is relatively flexible as compared to metal piping. This facilitates the use of efficient installation techniques. Water mains and sewers made of plastic piping can be deflected to match the curve alignment of streets and rights-of-way.

Variety of Joining Methods
Plastic piping can be joined by several means. For each material, there are several appropriate methods. The most known techniques are heat fusion, flanges, O-rings, rolled grooves solvent cementing, threaded joints and mechanical compression joints. This variety of joining methods allows plastic piping to be adapted easily to most field conditions.

Low Friction Loss
Due to its generally very smooth interior surface, reduced power may be required to convey fluids in plastic piping compared with other piping systems. Furthermore, the excellent corrosion resistance of plastics means that the low friction loss characteristic will not change over time.

Long Term Performance
Owing to the relative chemical inertness and the minimal effects of internal and external corrosion, there is very little change in the physical characteristics of plastic piping over dozens of years.

Light Weight
Plastic piping systems are on the order of one-sixth the weight of steel piping, most of them. This feature means cheaper costs in many ways

Nontoxic
Plastic piping systems have been approved for potable water applications. As a sign of this all plastic drinking water piping materials and products, they are all tested and listed for passivity to ANSI/NSF Standards 14 and 61.

Biological Resistance
Up until now, there are no documented reports on any fungi, bacteria, or termite attacks on any plastic piping system. Furthermore, because of its motionlessness, plastic piping is the preferred material in deionized and other high-purity water applications.

Abrasion Resistance
Plastic piping materials provide excellent service in handling slurries such as fly ash, bottom ash, and other abrasive solutions. The material durability and the smooth inner bore of plastic piping make it best for applications where abrasion resistance is needed.

Easy Identification
Plastic piping is available in a range of colors for easy identification. The following are generally used colors for different applications:

Fire Sprinklers (Orange)
Cable Duct (Variety of colors)
DWV (Black, white, tan, or gray)
Sewers (Green, white, black, or gray)
Industrial Process (Dark Gray/PVC, light gray/CPVC)
Water Distribution (Black, light blue, white, clear, or gray)
Hot and Cold Water Distribution (Tan, red, white, blue, silver, or clear)
Reclaimed Water (Purple or brown local jurisdiction may set requirements)
Gas Distribution (Formerly bright orange or tan; now yellow or black with yellow stripes)

Low Maintenance
The piping surfaces both in and out are not prone to galvanic oxidization or electrolysis. In submerged uses, the plastic piping is not commonly affected by chemically hostile soil. However, connection in soils contaminated with hydrocarbons (gas, oil, etc.) should be avoided.