12. November 2008
Vanguard Piping Systems (Canada) Inc. (Vanguard Canada) announced that its parent company has acquired Viega´s remaining interest in the company.
Vanguard Canada is now a wholly owned Canadian corporation manufacturing PEX and HDPE piping products in its facility in Burnaby, British Columbia. The company will continue to sell its products in Canada and now has the opportunity to expand its geographical reach worldwide including the United States.
More: KWD-globalpipe, 2008-10-28, No.296.
5. November 2008
With the expansion of its product line far beyond its core high-performance CPVC piping compounds, The Lubrizol Corporation has created a new marketing identity to more accurately reflect its highly diverse offering of CPVC and PEX products and technologies. FBCTM Building Solutions , the new unit, is named for the company’s core brands (FlowGuard Gold®, BlazeMaster® and Corzan® pipe and fittings). More: KWD-globalpipe, 2008-10-28, No.296.
1. November 2008
Within its overall strategic shift away from the production and sale of commodity products, REHAU announced that it will exit municipal PVC pipe manufacturing and supply in Canada, as well as its business as a PEX plumbing systems supplier in the U.S. and Canada.
Production of municipal PVC pipe will end as of October 31, 2008, with sales continuing through March 31, 2009. The company will also support PEX plumbing systems orders through March 31, 2009, and will provide full-scale customer assistance to ensure a smooth transition into alternative plumbing systems product lines thereafter.
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28. October 2008
Rifeng announces price reductions for its Pipes, Brass Fittings and Valves. Although the company faces RMB appreciation, raw materials and labor cost increasing, this year, Rifeng still has excellent performances on customer satisfaction and market expansion amazingly, up till now Rifeng sales up more than 40% over the same period of last year.. More: KWD-globalpipe, 2008-10-28, No.296
24. October 2008
GF Piping Systems will invest a total of CHF 21 million in its Schaffhausen location in order to expand distribution and production. About CHF 14 million of this amount will be invested in expanding the current distribution centre and improving its efficiency, while CHF 7 million will be set aside to increase manufacturing capacity of plastic products in the Schaffhausen plant. The investments will be made to satisfy the surge in demand, to eliminate delivery bottlenecks and to substantially improve operating processes.
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21. October 2008
In taking over the company CodeConsulting based in Ibbenbüren, the KIWA Group Germany, part of the Dutch company Kiwa N.V. which uses a beaver as its logo, has bridged the consultancy gap in the “plastics” sector. Since 1st September 2008 the CodeConsulting team, which has operated successfully for many years in the field of international standards and certification, has been advising the customers of KIWA Zert GmbH on “plastics” and thus completes the portfolio of the KIWA Group Germany. Contact: Mueller@codeconsulting.de . More: KWD-globalpipe, No.294.
16. October 2008
A group of major European equipment technology developers and material producers, together with Borealis, a leading provider of innovative value-creating plastics solutions, have joined forces to design a single-stage production process for high-performance peroxide-crosslinked polyethylene (PE-Xa) pipes.
The cooperative project involves Finland-based Crosslink Finland Oy, which produces infrared crosslinking units; Hans Weber Maschinenfabrik in Germany, which has developed some of the best twin-screw extruders available for this technology; German company, iNOEX, which supplies innovative dynamic mixing, dosing and control units; Borealis, which has developed two new grades in its BorPEXTM range of crosslinkable high molecular weight, high density polyethylenes especially designed to suit this production process; as well as AkzoNobel, who delivers the suitable type of peroxide and Ciba who provides the additives.
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23. September 2008
To better serve our growing European and Middle Eastern clients, Jana Laboratories is proud to announce the opening of its European office. The new office will be located in St. Germain, France and is scheduled to open in the Fall of 2008. Jana Europe will provide consulting and technical project support, maintaining the same focus on high-level customer service and the provision of value-centered engineering solutions that has allowed Jana to become the pre-eminent piping systems knowledge solutions firm in the world.
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11. September 2008
On August 29, 2008, Daikin Europe N.V., a 100% subsidiary of Daikin Industries Ltd. headquartered in Osaka, Japan, announced an agreement with the principal shareholders to acquire 100% of Rotex Group Companies with headquarters in Güglingen, Germany. Rotex is engaged in the production and distribution of heating products and complete heating systems. This acquisition -subject to the approval of the antitrust clearance authorities in Germany - strengthens Daikin’s offerings and market presence in its heating segment. The final transfer of business is expected to take place by 1 October 2008. More: KWD-globalpipe 2008-09-09, No.281
8. September 2008
Uponor Corporation has today taken a further step in building a platform for future growth by the announcement of a new European housing solutions organisation with Sales & Marketing and Supply Chain separated into ifferent entities. The changes, which do not involve the Nordic Infrastructure or the North American business, are effective from 1 October 2008.
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