Our journey started in the 1970s when our founders at a predecessor company threading steel pipe began experimenting with composite wraps. Using the technology at the time, they were able to increase burst pressure to 14,000 psi from 7,000 psi and built a healthy business. That is when we first saw the potential for composites to dramatically increase performance in piping applications.
Fast forward to 2008, and poly pipe had found wide acceptance for a variety of applications in multiple industries, including Oil & Gas, Mining, Wastewater, Power Generation and more. Standard HDPE poly pipe is easy to work with, cost effective, leak-free, and resistant to corrosion and abrasion. It is easy to see how quickly poly pipe was adopted in multiple industrial markets.
That is when we began working on composite wraps for standard HDPE pipe. If it worked on steel, then composites should generate similar results with poly pipe. Although it had never been done successfully before on a large diameter pipe, we figured it would take our team about two weeks to crack the code on wrapping commodity HDPE with composites.
