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NEWSMAKERS
* Antitrust Litigation * Atkore * Borealis * Century Pipe LLC * Electrofusion Welds * Krauss Maffei * Microplastics * PEX Pipe Failures * Polybutylene Pipe Failure * PUC * Reinforced Thermoplastic Pipes * Saudi Arabian Oil Co. * Slow Crack Growth * VinylTech *
BREAKING NEWS
California DTSC Adds Microplastics from Plastic Pipes to Candidate Chemicals List
New Research Finds Polybutylene Pipe under Tensile Stress or Strain Undergoes Early-Stage Voiding and Structural Damage Which Preferentially Initiates at the Spherulitic Centres
BUSINESS NEWS
Atkore Being Acquired by Prysmian for ~$3.8bn
Century Pipe LLC Manufacturing Facility
Century Pipe has installed three new production lines using German Krauss Maffei extruders that can produce pipe ranging from 2 to 36 inches in diameter. The building is designed to accommodate up to five production lines.
LEGAL NEWS
Antitrust PVC Pipe Companies Headed Back to Court Tomorrow
The Court will hold a Fairness Hearing for the NCSP Atkore Defendants Settlement and the NCSP Northern Pipe and Vinyltech Defendants Settlement on September 15, 2026, at 9:00 a.m. Central in person at Everett McKinley Dirksen Federal Courthouse, 219 South Dearborn, Chicago, Illinois 60604 in Courtroom 1425.
INDUSTRY NEWS
Australian Government Offering Grants to Plastic Pipe Manufacturers and Plastic Pipe Installers
PUC Approves Joint Settlement with Columbia Gas for Past Pipeline Safety Violations Involving Electrofusion Welds
Failure to identify no less than 220 visually unacceptable fusions and saddle tee fusions on service lines and main lines. These visually unacceptable fusions lacked a complete impression of the cold ring clamp and/or were mitered.
Failed HDPE Sewer Pipe
Garfield Township trustees approved a $186,900 contract Tuesday for engineering work on a project to replace HDPE sewer main that recently cracked under South Airport Road near Logan’s Landing. The pipe that recently cracked and leaked sewage into the surrounding area, closing part of South Airport Road for several days, dates back to 1974. It is a thin-walled, unusual HDPE material that was not documented in historical construction records and was located just four-and-a-half feet under the road.
HDPE Pipe Resin Manufacturer Borouge International Gets New COO
Australian Researchers Buried Used Plastic Pipes to Make Natural Animal Habitats
NEW TECHNOLOGY DEVELOPMENTS
New Method for Welding & Repairing PVC Pipes [PDF]
Saudi Arabian Oil Co. Patent New Connection Method for Reinforced Thermoplastic Pipes (RTP) [PDF]
Borealis Develop Improved HDPE Pipe Resin [PDF]
PEX PIPE FAILURE
Multivariate Machine Learning Approaches to Spectroscopic Analysis of Cross-Linked Polyethylene (PEX) Water Pipes
HDPE PIPE FAILURE
Physics-Informed Neural Network Framework for Mechanics-Based Remaining Useful Life Prediction of Polyethylene (HDPE) Pipelines
Review on Slow Crack Growth (SCG) Resistance of Polyethylene Pipes: Microstructural Influences, Mechanism-Based Modelling and Accelerated Test Methods
Data Requirements for Defect-Level Sewer Pipe Condition Modelling
GRP PIPES
Study on the Mechanical Behaviour of GFRP-PHC Pipe Piles under Lateral Cyclic Loading Considering Pile-Soil Interaction
Detection of Matrix Cracked and Delaminated Glass Fibre Reinforced Plastic Pipes Using Guided Waves and a Piezoelectric Transducers Network
IN CASE YOU MISSED IT !
Update on Iplex “Pro-Fit” Polybutylene Pipes Class Action
Honourable Justice Button has made orders that an initial trial be listed to commence on 8 May 2028, with an estimated duration of 12 weeks
Element Introduces Digital Workflow for Plastic Pipe Testing
Element Materials Technology have introduced a new digital workflow that connects accredited hydrostatic pressure testing utilizing Pipeson’s Data Manager.
Keeping the Pipe Failure Litigation Lions at Bay
Legal cases involving Aquatherm’s green polypropylene pipe
Reliance Worldwide (RWC ASX) Target of Takeover Bid from Brookfield Capital Partners
Borealis Develop HDPE Pipe Resins with Improved Mechanical Properties
HDPE Pipe Plant Halts Production Indefinitely as Kyiv Air Strikes Intensify
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