Items related to the polyethylene products.
Once you cross the 18-Mile Stretch into the Florida Keys from the mainland, the world seems to turn at a happily slower pace. By car, there is only one way to get there — a 127.5-mile, mostly two-lane road known as the Overseas Highway (U.S. 1). It travels along a patchwork of land and sea featuring 42 bridges including the Seven Mile Bridge atop portions of the former Overseas Railroad. Only an estimated 76,300 people …
Read MoreTULSA, Okla. — McElroy is pleased to bring wireless capability to the DataLogger® 5 which gives pipe fusion operators the ability to upload data to the DataLogger Vault™ where it can be reviewed and analyzed in real-time from anywhere in the world. Fusion data can now be uploaded instantly from the field via Wi-Fi or cellular and reviewed and analyzed the same day. Fusion operators no longer have to physically connect the DataLogger to a …
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RED DEER, Alberta — A new product by McElroy called the QuickCamp™ System was successfully tested recently at a jobsite in Canada, attracting area contractors and engineers who traveled there to get a firsthand look at the unique shelter and pipe-handling system at work. The QuickCamp – designed to protect the pipe fusion operator and fusion joints from outside conditions – became available just as Knibb Developments was beginning construction on a 10-kilometer wastewater pipeline …
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Cities across the country are facing the costly and urgent task of replacing antiquated water systems that disrupt traffic and interrupt service due to countless, expensive and all-too-familiar water line breaks. In an effort to provide cutting-edge solutions, the Alliance for PE Pipe will be in Tulsa on April 15 to promote high-density polyethylene (HDPE) pipe as a superior replacement to existing infrastructure. HDPE pipe does not leak, crack, pit or corrode. It also does …
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