Meet your 2026 Champions of Fusion Finalists

Eighteen countries. Nearly 200 entries. Thousands of views and shares and comments. Our Champions of Fusion contest started in 2022 as a way to highlight operators and field technicians: our boots on the ground who spend each day in the trenches – often literally! – embodying McElroy’s mission of improving the world through improved infrastructure. Over the past month, our expert panel of judges has narrowed down this year’s entries to a handful of finalists …


Understanding Vault™ Insights

As McElroy continues to improve the ways Vault™ users can leverage the data stored there, we recently introduced Vault™ Insights, designed to provide a top-down look at operators, machines, jobsites, and more. The Vault Insights page allows an account holder to take action from the data collected. This interactive page includes metrics that illustrate how operators and machines are performing. Information is displayed in a variety of ways, with users able to further filter their …


April 2026 Champions of Fusion entries

Welcome back to another recap of our Champions of Fusion entries! First, let’s congratulate our MONTHLY SWAG BAG winner, Kameron Greenhalgh! Kameron sent in this photo of a fusion jobsite in small-town Idaho, USA. There, the town was redoing its treatment plant, which included a plan for a fused bypass line. The line, Kameron said, included a lot of “funky angles” to make it work correctly. Congratulations, Kameron! Our other monthly entries were: Do you …


The Future of Water

Water piping systems are critical to the world’s infrastructure. Today, those systems are being designed and installed with an eye for sustainability, reliability, and efficiency. Welded HDPE fits all three of those criteria. When installed with a quality welding machine by a well-trained operator using an accepted standard, welded HDPE joints form a joint that is as strong – or stronger – than the surrounding pipe. Its proven record of reliability is clear in its …