Product Line: AMERICAN SpiralWeld Pipe

In a January 4, 2021, feature story in the New York Times, author Ben Ryder Howe discusses the current state of water supply in the west.  He writes of the history and current water supply and demand, including the recent […]

On November 12, 2020, AMERICAN experts presented a live webinar for more than 500 water and wastewater professionals and students. The event, hosted by Water Online, discussed iron and steel pipeline resilience and why it matters when selecting pipe materials for installation.

AMERICAN SpiralWeld Pipe Company, a subsidiary of AMERICAN Cast Iron Pipe Company headquartered in Birmingham, Alabama, is expanding its spiral-welded steel pipe operations to Paris, Texas. The plant is expected to be operational during the first quarter of 2021.

When the Hugh K. Leatherman Sr. Terminal opens in North Charleston in 2021, container traffic traveling to and from it will use the new Port Access Road, a direct route from I-26 that will reduce the need for commercial trucks to use local roads.

Six million gallons of water per day (MGD) sounds like a lot of water, and it is, but it wasn’t enough to meet Limestone County’s projected demands for drinking water. Around 1,000 customers were being added each year, and a number of inquiries had been made about increased industrial development.

Buried under the waters of the new Topsail Island Bridge is AMERICAN SpiralWeld Pipe. While AMERICAN’s spiral-welded steel pipe is most often used in water delivery, it also excels as drilled shaft casing pipe used in the formation of cast-in-place concrete piles.

Eastern Parkway is a historic, heavily traveled road in the city of Louisville, Kentucky. To minimize environmental impacts and neighborhood disruptions, Louisville Water Company opted to install the pipe using an installation method known as slip lining.

As part of its plan to preserve and protect the Alluvial Aquifer, the Army Corps of Engineers is constructing an irrigation system that will bring water from the White River at DeValls Bluff to about 250,000 acres of farmland.

This article also appeared in American City & County. Read the article here. If you think Hurricane Katrina was the first time New Orleans suffered major flood damage, think again. Flooding has been as much a part of New Orleans’ […]

In January 2014, Discovery Science Channel’s How It’s Made Episode 13 included a segment on the making of spiral-welded steel pipe. The segment was filmed at AMERICAN SpiralWeld in Columbia, South Carolina.