Irving, Texas—The Plastics Pipe Institute, Inc. (PPI) has renewed its commitment for financial and technical support for the 2020 U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Solar Decathlon – Design Challenge. PPI is the major North American trade association representing all segments of the plastic pipe industry. This is PPI’s sixth year supporting this DOE program, formerly Read more
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Uponor North America and San Diego, Calif.-based Pestan North America (PNA), a supplier of PP-RCT pipe and fittings, today announced the signing of an agreement naming Uponor the exclusive distributor of PNA’s proprietary PP-RCT (polypropylene, random copolymer, with modified crystallinity and temperature resistance) products throughout the U.S. and Canada. Beginning in 2020, Uponor will market more than 270 of PNA’s Read more
Uponor’s Ecoflex pre-insulated piping system was chosen for our latest project in Duluth, MN because of its flexibility and weight. I’ve worked with a few similar products but none have been as easy to order, handle and install. Here’s a video from the install day, more to come when we install the boiler system. If Read more
While PEX has been used for more than 40 years in radiant heating applications, it’s now getting more traction in commercial hydronic heating and cooling applications as well. Contractors and engineers are beginning to spec and install PEX for distribution piping to various terminal units, such as fan coils, reheat coils, heat pumps, baseboard radiators Read more
Here’s a quick trick I learned a while back, I’m not sure how I cam about doing this but I credit the unknown source. Fiber washers can be a bear when turning the water on for the first time on a piping system. They’re stiff and often leak, requiring you to snug the union fitting Read more