The construction industry in Europe has been in decline since 2008, with figures from Euroconstruct showing total spend of 1444 billion euros in 2008, 1316 in 2009 and an anticipated 1264 in 2010.
Residents of five communities in the Polish province of West Pomerania are already experiencing the benefits of an improved drinking water and sanitation network thanks to an on-going project to upgrade and expand the existing system with pipes based on BorSafe PE100 LS-H from Borealis, a leading provider of chemical and innovative plastics solutions.
The KyroSys extrusion line offered by Austrian machine manufacturer Cincinnati Extrusion has helped KNG Awans, a company based in Czarnków, Poland, to produce PE multi layer pipes more efficiently.
Borealis, a leading provider of innovative, value creating plastics solutions, announces the start-up of additional capacity for black high density polyethylene (HDPE) for drinking water and gas pipes at its Schwechat facility in Austria.
Borealis BorSafe LS-H solution generates 30% cost saving for rural infrastructure project
There have been suspicions that harmful substances migrate from plastic pipes into drinking water. A new study by the Danish EPA has acquitted the pipes.
Borealis introduced new concept for production of single-stage peroxide-crosslinked polyethylene pipes.
LyondellBasell Launches New-Generation PE Adhesive Resin used in Steel Pipe External Coatings.
Just a few weeks before the International Tube and Pipe Trade Fair, Tube 2008, in Düsseldorf, another sector is reporting successful developments. In addition to the steel industry, which is currently posting one positive result after another, the German plastic tube industry is charting a course for significant growth. As Dr. Elmar Löckenhoff, Managing Director of the Kunststoffrohrverband e.V. (Plastic Tube Association), states in the preface of the KRV business report 2007, the German plastic tube industry is also benefiting from globalisation. - This is shown specifically by the opening of the Eastern European markets - he admits.