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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
CONTRACTOR UNCOVERS UNIQUE DIRECT-BURIED PIPE SOLUTION
October 23rd, 2010
SSM Cardinal Glennon Children’s Medical Center is a not-for-profit, 190-bed inpatient and outpatient pediatric medical center in St. Louis. The hospital is home to the Bob Costas Cancer Center, Dana Brown Neonatal Intensive Care Unit, St. Louis Fetal Care Institute, Dorothy and Larry Dallas Heart Center, St. Louis Cord Blood Bank, and the Missouri Poison Read More
HIGH-RISE SENIOR CARE BUILDING BENEFITS FROM INNOVATIVE PIPE SYSTEM
May 19th, 2010
When the residents and employees of The Kenwood by Senior Star in Cincinnati are going about their days and nights in ambient comfort, it’s unlikely they spend even a moment thinking of the work that went into the design and installation of the 15-story, 515,000-square-foot tower’s heating system. Yet, in light of increasing energy prices Read More
CSU STAFF RE-PIPES DATA CENTER WHILE REMAINING OPERATIONAL WITH ASSIST FROM PP-R PIPE
March 23rd, 2010
“The number one reason we opted to use it on this project was the application inside the room. We couldn’t shut down the system and needed a product that could go under the floor, be reliable, and that didn’t require soldering or welding.” – Gene Ellis, Mechanical Engineer, CSU Campus Facilities Management, Fort Collins, CO Read More
CUTTING-EDGE WASTEWATER TREATMENT PLANT USES PP-R PIPE SYSTEM FOR VAST MAJORITY OF ITS PIPING NEEDS
January 19th, 2010
“We haven’t had any problems with it [aquatherm] at all. We did have a freezing situation where the schedule 80 PVC burst, but the aquatherm didn’t.” -Roy Ford, Plant Supervisor
NO FLAME, NO SPARK … PIPING HITS THE MARK
November 19th, 2009
In a factory where the simple ring of a cell phone could set off a fatal explosion, the ability to make long-lasting piping connections without an open flame was invaluable. Editor’s Note: In January 2010, the Mapa Spontex Inc.’s Columbia, Tennessee factory operations ceased due to the sale of the company. For more than the last Read More
HISTORIC OHIO SKYSCRAPER PICKS AQUATHERM TO REPLACE WASTEFUL STEEL PIPING SYSTEM
October 19th, 2009
FIRSTMERIT TOWER NEEDED A NEW, EFFICIENT CLOSED-LOOP COOLING SYSTEM TO REDUCE WATER WASTE After a skyscraper has been around for a few years, for some of us, it begins to fade into the skyline. And after a few decades, when buildings begin to wear around the edges, we barely notice a few of the, once Read More
PIPING ALTERNATIVE PROVIDES EXTENSIVE SAVINGS AND HELPS FORT HOOD “GO GREEN”
June 19th, 2009
Located in central Texas, Fort Hood is the only post in the United States capable of stationing and training two U.S. Army Armored Divisions. The 340-square-mile installation is home to more than 52,000 currently assigned soldiers and 100,000 family members. With an estimated economic impact in 2008 of $10.9 billion statewide, the installation is also Read More
PIPING ALTERNATIVE COMBINES WITH NEW CHILLER TO HELP AIRPORT HOTEL’S A/C TAKE OFF
July 19th, 2008
The nine-story, 296-room Embassy Suites Nashville – Airport hotel was built in the 1980s, and its original chiller and piping had reached their logical replacement point. Over the years a couple of the existing Schedule 40 carbon elbows on the system had sprung leaks and some of the galvanized pipe had experienced considerable corrosion. Thus, Read More
DONE DIGGING: PIPING ALTERNATIVE DELIVERS CHILLED WATER SOLUTION
July 19th, 2008
As HVAC supervisor for the Salt Lake City School District, Jon Woodward usually has his hands full. And with 40 years of experience in the industry, he generally prefers solving problems using proven technology. So when he was dealing with underground leaking chilled water piping at an adult extended learning center, a new-to-him piping solution Read More
PIPING SOLUTION WITHSTANDS HEAT IN FLOOD DISASTER
June 23rd, 2008
Installed in 2008 for its durability in a utility tunnel, aquatherm’s polypropylene-random piping didn’t melt or leak despite being submerged along with 380 °F steam during a huge flood in May 2010. In early May, record-breaking flash floods in Tennessee, Mississippi, and Kentucky killed dozens of people and destroyed homes and businesses throughout the region. Read More