Construction
Cured in place pipe: Trenchless trends
A variety of CIPP products are enabling the rehabilitation, rather than excavation and replacement, of underground pipe for wastewater and drinking water.
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The American Water Works Assn. (AWWA, Denver, Colo.) divides cured-in-place pipe (CIPP) into four classes.
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Cladding controversy: SMC insulation panels preserve pre-1919 building aesthetics
Acell (Milan, Italy) offers a solution for insulating older buildings that is designed to satisfy advocates of both architectural preservation and environmental conservation.
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Yin and Yang
CT's editor-in-chief Jeff Sloan highlights the beneficial role composites currently play in reducing costs and disruptions in commerce associated with rehabilitation of underground pipe and tanks.
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FRP liners for steel piping
FRP pipe systems have proven to be an effective means of combating corrosion in high-pressure gas service and water systems, including CO2 injection wells, oil and gas producing wells, waterflood injection wells, brinewater/chemical disposal wells, and transportation pipelines.
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Industrial corrosion control: Huge opportunities
Fiber-reinforced plastic is the ideal but still widely ignored option in environments that eat away at most metal alloys. Opportunities abound, but the key is still education.
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Milking platforms: Composites transform New Zealand cow sheds
Waikato Milking Systems (Hamilton, New Zealand) introduced its Centrus composite milking platform in 2009 and, since then, has installed 24 platforms at customer sites. They're made via RTM Lite.
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Prefabricated Bridge Elements and Systems: An opportunity for composites
The Federal Highway Admin. (FHWA) is keenly aware of the disruptions that highway and bridge projects impose on the traveling public. To address this need, the FHWA rolled out a series of accelerated bridge construction (ABC) initiatives. One involves prefabricated bridge elements and systems — a need the composites industry can easily meet.
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Old dogs, new tricks
CT Editor-in-chief Jeff Sloan wonders why the composites industry owns only a 5 percent share of the huge corrosion control market.
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Composite booth: ATM delivers "green" in more ways than one
Edra Equipamentos (Ipeuna, Brazil) has developed a composites-intensive automated teller machine (ATM) enclosure that is not only attractive and functional, but also environmentally sustainable.
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