Expansion Management: Navigating HDPE Pipe Installations

HDPE piping has rapidly gained popularity among engineers and project managers seeking adaptable, flexible, and rust-resistant piping solutions. Whether for a temporary or permanent installation in the expansive space of regional mine sites or within a pipe gallery suspended from beams, HDPE pipe can provide the ideal solution for your above-ground project. The flexibility of …

How to best replace steel bends with wear resistant HDPE

Image: Highlighting the challenge of fitting a 3D bend, this photo shows a modified guardrail to accommodate it. Contrastingly, the 1.5D bend behind seamlessly fits in the same position, offering optimal performance without altering the guardrail.    We recently received a customer query about how to get HDPE bends to match steel long radius dimensions.  …

A nickel in time saved nine for this international project

In 2022, an international mining company specialising in nickel and cobalt approached Advanced Piping Systems for assistance in a time-sensitive project related to their mine expansion. The company’s Queensland Area Sales Manager, Andrew Chawynski, explained that the client needed support with an offshore project aimed at increasing their nickel production to meet rising global demand …

Built like a tank: another prefabrication success

With excellent chemical resistance, HDPE (or poly) pipe, can be used in a wide range of chemical processes and applications.Recognising this, in late 2022, our specialist Fabrication team was selected to design, fabricate, and test a Hydrochloric Acid Unloading Priming Tank for a large multinational organisation.  The tank – required for the safe and efficient …

Advanced Piping Systems’ precision HDPE spooling future-proofs iron ore mine

In 2022, Advanced Piping Systems supplied HDPE spooling and pipe to a A$100 million water management upgrade project at an iron ore mine in the Pilbara region of Western Australia.  Working in partnership with a leading national multidisciplinary industrial services provider and a leading national water and waste treatment provider, the project’s aim was to …