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Plastic pipe market to grow with rapid infrastructure development in Middle East
time2016/09/21
- Plastic pipe market growing with rapid infrastructure development in Middle East -PE pipe system
With rapid infrastructure development in the Middle East region, the markets are growing for pipe systems from water and sewage to cooling systems and industrial pipes. In addition, existing pipe systems are leaking valuable water resources and need to be upgraded. Applied Market Information organised a conference in June 2008 to bring the industry together in Dubai to debate the market trends and regional issues.
Noavaran Baspar provides pipe testing services in Iran and has compared global and local standards. The issues are the climate in the Gulf region compared to Europe where most international standards have been set: UV exposure is 700kj/square cm/year; water temperature in the pipe can rise to 50 C; outside temperature ranges from -20 to +55 C; water tends to be higher in chlorine content. There is also a need to raise the standards of training for installation to ensure that pipes are handled and joined to the highest quality of workmanship. Professor Alawaji at King Saud University has examined polyethylene (PE) pipe performance at higher temperatures as they are a cost effective solution in arid regions.
This PE 100 material offers good resistance to stress crack growth and crack propagation, durability and a long lifetime in service. Like other suppliers, SABIC would like to see the development of local performance standards for plastics pipes - low quality products have been damaging the market image in the region.
Noavaran Baspar provides pipe testing services in Iran and has compared global and local standards. The issues are the climate in the Gulf region compared to Europe where most international standards have been set: UV exposure is 700kj/square cm/year; water temperature in the pipe can rise to 50 C; outside temperature ranges from -20 to +55 C; water tends to be higher in chlorine content. There is also a need to raise the standards of training for installation to ensure that pipes are handled and joined to the highest quality of workmanship. Professor Alawaji at King Saud University has examined polyethylene (PE) pipe performance at higher temperatures as they are a cost effective solution in arid regions.
This PE 100 material offers good resistance to stress crack growth and crack propagation, durability and a long lifetime in service. Like other suppliers, SABIC would like to see the development of local performance standards for plastics pipes - low quality products have been damaging the market image in the region.
Total Petrochemicals has a new low sagging PE 100 material for thick walled pressure pipes. There are around 120 producers of large diameter pipes worldwide and the market is moving to Asia and the Middle East. Firat has used this material in the Bosporus potable water pipeline. There is a new PE-RT material from Dow with improved higher temperature performance. It can be used in more aggressive environments.