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AQUATHERM DESIGN & PLANNING GUIDE
We are pleased to present the 2025 Design & Planning Guide, with many updates, including aquatherm blue® MF RP (PP-RCT). Read More
PLANNING GUIDE AND PARTS GUIDE
We’re excited to announce the release of the new Aquatherm Design & Planning Guide and its companion piece, the Aquatherm Parts Guide. Formally referred to as our Product Catalog, these Guides deliver updated information on planning and designing piping systems using North America’s preeminent polypropylene piping system. Read More
UNIVERSITY OF UTAH PICKS AQUATHERM FOR INVENTIVE, SUSTAINABLE COOLING SYSTEM
September 19th, 2013
A state-of-the-art, innovative building project designed to be a first-of-its-kind LEED Platinum facility most certainly would need creative, cutting-edge solutions to various construction obstacles along the way. Such was the case for the University of Utah’s S.J. Quinney College of Law in Salt Lake City. The College of Law had occupied the same campus building Read More
OVALITY IN MACHINE ASSISTED FUSIONS
August 29th, 2013
When using any fusion assistance machine, avoid clamping the fitting in a way that will cause the opening to form an oval shape. The welding heads are designed to operate under very specific tolerances, and compressing the end of the fitting can prevent proper contact, and thus proper fusion. Some bench top machines are more Read More
AQUATHERM AND SOLAR
August 29th, 2013
Aquatherm piping is an excellent choice for use with most solar heating applications. There are, however, a few precautions that need to be observed when using Aquatherm in the solar piping system. The most significant use of solar heating has been for swimming pool, domestic hot water, and space heating. Solar collectors are classified according Read More
Aquatherm Temperature Spikes and Boiler Malfunctions
August 29th, 2013
201308E – AQTTB Date Issued: 28 August 2013 The temperature/pressure ratings in the Aquatherm literature are based on averages over the life of the system. For example, the rating at 180°F would be applicable for a system with a set point of 180°F, with the expectation that the true temperature of the system would fluctuate Read More
COPPERWORKS DISTILLING COMPANY PICKS AQUATHERM FOR SIX-STORY PROCESS COOLING SYSTEM
August 19th, 2013
aquatherm PP-R piping fits the bill for insulation and sustainability requirements Walk into the Copperworks Distilling Company located in the heart of Seattle’s waterfront, and you’ll be in awe – not only at the gorgeous custom-made copper pot and column stills but at the extraordinary contrast of tradition vs. innovation. The centerpiece of the distillery Read More
CHICAGO HOTEL SAVES LOTS OF GREEN ($$$) USING AQUATHERM BLUE PIPE®
August 19th, 2013
When Ryan Kerrigan, Vice President, Sherman Mechanical Inc., in Cary, IL, was tasked with designing and installing the heat pump system for the new Hyatt Place Chicago-South/University Medical Center, he was presented with a different solution to the black piping that he was accustomed to using in projects of this kind. aquatherm blue® was proposed as an alternative, and since Kerrigan and his team Read More
ESTABLISHED CONTRACTOR USES PP-R PIPE FOR A/C RETROFIT ON 83-YEAR-OLD SCHOOL CAMPUS
July 19th, 2013
John E. Green Company installs 21st century piping in direct-bury heat pump application at the University of Detroit Jesuit High School. Located in inner-city Detroit, University of Detroit Jesuit High School and Academy was founded in 1877. The school has prospered through good times and bad by focusing on its founder’s Jesuit values and preparing Read More
WHEN QUALITY MATTERS – MAIN STREET BREWERY SELECTS AQUATHERM PIPE FOR ITS BREW HOUSE
July 19th, 2013
A PIECE OF HISTORY TURNED INTO A SOCIAL HUB If you take a walk down the historic Brewery Creek in Vancouver, BC, you’ll find a unique artistic community with a rustic building that formerly housed Doering & Marstrand Brewing Co. and then the Vancouver Brewery in the early 1900s. The now rustic building was even Read More
AQUATHERM BLUE PIPE — TOPS FOR HOPS
May 19th, 2013
With its polypropylene-random (PP-R) pressure piping increasingly being used on a wide variety of applications, aquatherm is beginning to carve out a niche in process piping brewery applications. The new Aardwolf Brewery in Jacksonville, FL, selected aquatherm blue® as the primary piping component in its fermentation process. The pipe is used to transfer a glycol/water Read More
Aquatherm Valve Applications
April 23rd, 2013
201304A – AQTTB Date Issued: 18 April 2013 Aquatherm offers a variety of valves in our catalog. These valves range in offering between the screw-down stop globe valve, concealed valves, inclined globe valves and ball valves. This document is an attempt to identify the valve offerings and their different applications. Globe Valves Globe valves are Read More