Plastic pipe laying is recognized as a convenient and economical, safe and reliable operation, and green features. Plastic pipe not only has the advantages of corrosion-resistant, and with the copper and steel costs rising, water pipes with plastic pipes market to flourish. Cincinnati Extrusion Technology Co., Ltd. for various raw materials such as PEX, PP, PE-RT and composite materials, to provide customers with customized extrusion line to meet growing market demand.
According to the U.S. Advanced Materials Information (AMI) survey, the current European transport hot and cold water pipes for a total length of 1.6 billion m, of which half, or 777 million m of plastic tubing pipes. In 2008 as a whole is expected to hot and cold water pipes in the market growth rate will reach 0.9%, while the share of plastic pipe pipes are expected to increase 4.1%. Plastic tubing pipes conveying hot water mainly applied to geothermal energy facilities, heating facilities and drinking water pipelines and other fields. Because of its obvious advantages, plastic pipe used in the share of modern geothermal systems accounted for 96% of the overall market share. Which, PEX pipes are widely used, accounting for about 70%. In contrast, steel and copper is still the heating and sanitary pipelines main materials, accounting for about 60% of the overall market share. Synthetic materials and PEX plastic pipe for the main raw material. By 2008, senior U.S. intelligence agencies Materials (AMI) composite pipe is expected to reach the highest growth rate of 8.4%, PE-RT pipe will grow 4.8%, PEX pipe will grow 2.9%. At the same time, market researchers forecast the market share of steel pipe will reduce by 1.6%, copper will be reduced 4%. Equipment suppliers of raw materials to the challenge.
Hot water pipe diameter range of production is generally 12 ~ 63mm, the most commonly used for the outer diameter 16mm and 20mm, wall thickness from 2mm to 3.5mm hot water pipes. Depending on the application different manufacturers should first be clear that not all plastic raw materials to produce the pipe are also applicable to the delivery of drinking water. For example, PEX-a and PEX-b does not apply to drinking water, transport, and PEX-c are fit. In addition to various types of cross-linked PE, such as PE-RT, etc., PP-R, PB, C-PVC raw materials and aluminum-plastic composite materials are also widely used. Drinking water pipes mainly include PE-RT, C-PVC and PEX-c, different types of PEX-a and PEX-b are used for geothermal and heating systems. To meet the pipe manufacturer to product the same time, low-cost high-quality requirements, must address the different raw materials on each pipe extrusion production line reasonable adjustment.
