Plastic Pipes XV Conference 2010
| Vancouver, BC Canada |
20 - 22 Sept 2010
The Plastic Pipes conference has been running continuously for over 30 years, held every two years in an exciting new destination.
PPXV is organized by the Plastic Pipes Conference Association made up of the Plastics Pipe Institute (PPI), PVC4Pipes and PPE100+. Largely a European based conference for much of its existence, the Plastic Pipes Conference spread its wings for the first time and traveled to North America in 2006 for its first-ever United States debut. Building on its North America success, PPCA brought PPXIV back to Europe but this time to Budapest Hungary in Eastern Europe for one of its most highly attended conferences to date in the fall of 2008.
20 Sept 2010
SABIC® Vestolen A RELY Achieves New Standards for Sustainability, Performance, Cost Effectiveness in HDPE Pipe Applications
Sittard, the Netherlands – September 20, 2010 – At the Plastic Pipes XV Conference in Vancouver, Canada (stand 6) SABIC, a global plastics industry leader, today introduced the new SABIC® Vestolen A RELY family of tough, sustainable and cost-effective bimodal high-density polyethylene (HDPE) materials for pressure pipe applications. The SABIC® Vestolen A RELY portfolio offers converters considerable energy savings and enables environmentally responsible pipe installation. Further demonstrating its commitment to sustainable technologies, the company also presented today its revolutionary new Strain Hardening method, a fast, cost-efficient and highly accurate method for evaluating the slow crack growth resistance behaviour of HDPE. This Strain Hardening method avoids the use of detergents - that can pose an environmental hazard – and avoids the use of valuable drinking water.