Year: 2016

Learn more about the latest innovations from AMERICAN including zinc-coated ductile iron pipe, AFC Mapper, earthquake joint system and more.

Studies on AMERICAN’s involvement in the Panama Canal Expansion and the city of Lafayette, Louisiana’s first installation using HDD were recently presented at ASCE Pipelines.

The system, for use with AMERICAN’s pipe, valves and hydrants, moves up and down and side to side to resist the tremendous underground forces from an earthquake.

AMERICAN’s Earthquake Joint System protects water infrastructure during seismic events. The system, for use with AMERICAN’s pipe, valves, and hydrants, moves up and down and side to side to resist the tremendous underground forces from an earthquake.

This study looked at one city’s positive first experience with Horizontal Directional Drilling using ductile iron pipe and involved three successful pulls of 1,140, 940 and 740 feet.

Water utilities across the U.S. are specifying and installing zinc-coated ductile iron pipe. Why zinc? It’s a proven, life extending product for iron pipe, adding years of life and service to an already reliable and resilient product.

Water utilities across the U.S. are specifying and installing zinc-coated ductile iron pipe. Why zinc? It’s a proven, life extending product for iron pipe, adding years of life and service to an already reliable and resilient product.

Research from the University of Michigan provides a new cost analysis tool for utilities that shows while PVC pipe may cost less initially, ductile iron pipe lasts longer, making it more cost effective over the life cycle of the pipe.

AMERICAN Cast Iron Pipe Company is proud to be a presenter and exhibitor at the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) Pipelines 2016 Conference July 17-20, in Kansas City, Missouri. The theme is “Out of Sight, Out of Mind, But Not Out of Risk,”

The estimated $30-million West Side Loop 48-inch Replacement Project is being conducted by the Cobb County-Marietta Water Authority to provide additional water to western Cobb County and Paulding County in Georgia. For the project, a 48-year-old, 36-inch pre-stressed concrete cylinder pipe (PCCP) that recently failed is being replaced with 48-inch ductile iron pipe.