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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
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
AQUATHERM’S POLYPROPYLENE PIPE HELPS CINCINNATI GREENSOURCE “WALK THE TALK”
November 19th, 2009
The brainchild of an innovative contractor, GreenSource Cincinnati is a working building that showcases cutting-edge green technologies including: Plumbing; HVAC; electrical; water reclamation, roofing; data center; and other sustainable building products. A few years ago William, “Ez” Housh III realized that the Midwestern green building movement was severely lacking in one area: A working, breathing Read More
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
GETTING THE LEAD (AND OTHER TOXINS) OUT
November 19th, 2009
Mickey Dietrich sought a green piping option for his family’s new home in Lowville, NY. “I wanted to make sure that I knew I did everything I possibly could to make sure my family had the safest living environment that I could provide for them, while at the same time, also making the home as Read More
NONTRADITIONAL PIPING OPTION TAPPED FOR DOMESTIC WATER AT OLYMPIC VILLAGE HOUSING PROJECT
October 19th, 2009
While the bulk of the Millennium Water South East False Creek Olympic Village housing project parcels used traditional copper piping for domestic water, some owners chose a different route. Three hundred residential units from parcels 3 and 6 were piped with aquatherm green®, which is made from polypropylene-random (PP-R) and is designed specifically for potable 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
GREEN PIPING ALTERNATIVE FITS HOTEL INSTALLATION TO A TEE
March 19th, 2009
An experienced Jimmy Hughes was in the process of bidding a potable water piping job at the Comfort Suites on Stewarts Ferry Pike in Nashville when copper prices were at an all-time high in fall 2008. As owner and president of Hughes Bro., Inc., he has been in the plumbing trade for 37 years and Read More
GREEN PIPE HELPS MINERS REMOVE THE BLACK
August 19th, 2008
With copper prices sky-high, an experienced mechanical contracting company embraced polypropylene as a superb potable water solution at a Kentucky coal mine. Lyons Company, Mechanical Contractors and Engineers, located in Glasgow, Kentucky, prides itself on its team of licensed and skilled journeymen and master plumbers, experienced pipefitters, and welders. So receiving the bid for a 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