Summit Carbon Solutions announced today it has placed orders for approximately $440 million of carbon steel line pipe from four American-based companies, including AMERICAN Steel Pipe, a division of AMERICAN Cast Iron Pipe Company, based in Birmingham, Alabama.
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Although often considered an industry that is slow to change, the waterworks industry itself has come a long way. Take the fire hydrant for instance. It’s one of the few visible pieces of today’s water distribution system.
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Infrastructure projects in 2016 are not that different from those in the 1800s: Transportation, communication, power utilities, and sewage and drinking water systems. Today, however, these systems are considerably more complex and expensive.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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In Birmingham’s ACIPCO-Finley neighborhood, a 2-inch water pipe that services the neighborhood was leaking. An upgrade was needed to improve water supply and pressure, and to fix the leak to conserve water resources and avoid damage to the road.
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