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AMI mags: 10,000+ on Twitter
@PlasticsWorld, the Twitter page for AMI’s magazines, publications and events, has now attracted more than 10,000 followers from around the globe, reaffirm- ing its position as the most popular Twitter feed run by plastics industry magazines. The @PlasticsWorld
Twitter page is used to announce plastics industry news as it happens, providing useful links to rel- evant web pages, reports, images and videos. Our expert editors and journal- ists add breaking news stories on a regular basis, as well as reporting live from major exhibitions and conferences. Our 10,200+ Twitter
followers are also the first to be notified when we publish a new issue of one of our digital magazines: Compounding World, Film and Sheet Extrusion, Injection World and Pipe and Profile Extrusion. In addition, the @Plastics- World Twitter page is used to announce special discount offers on our books and publications, as well as delivering news about our comprehensive programme of plastics industry conferences. If you already have a
Twitter account, then you can follow and contact us at @PlasticsWorld. Those without a Twitter account can still view our Tweets at: ❙
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www.pipeandprofile.com
JM Eagle may benefit from judge’s ruling
JM Eagle’s fortunes may have taken a turn for the better in its long-running ‘whisteblower’ court case. In late 2013 the company
was found liable for selling sub-standard PVC pipe, under the US False Claims Act. Although more than 40 govern- ment-owned organisations – including many individual water authorities across the country – joined the case against JM Eagle, only five of them were actually heard in the lead-up to the ruling.
It had been understood that
the jury’s verdict would then trigger a Phase 2 trial, which would decide on the level of damages to be paid to all companies involved in the case. But the presiding judge, George Wu, now says that the verdict only applies to the five ‘exemplar plaintiffs’. The cases of all the others must now be heard in Phase 2 of the trial, he said. Lawyers for the plaintiffs
argue that every case is effectively the same – as all of
them involved being misled by JM Eagle– and that the jury’s decision to award damages against JM Eagle should be extended to include all plaintiffs.
The original case was filed in 2006, when former JM Eagle employee John Hendrix claimed that the company had knowingly sold sub-standard pipe.
Whichever way the case
finally goes, it is likely to continue for some time yet. ❙
www.jmeagle.com
PP for railway tunnel drainage
Wavin has supplied a polypro- pylene (PP) drainage system for a new railway tunnel in Belgium – although the designers had originally considered concrete pipes. The Liefkenshoek railway
connection runs underneath the Scheldt estuary in Antwerp, and acts as a goods link between the port and Europe’s rail distribution network. It opened in December 2014. Wavin’s X-stream foul water
system was used to provide drainage for the 6km length of the tunnel – which posed a number of design challenges. Passing beneath the estuary meant that the system could only have one point of access and one exit. The tunnel would also need to slope down to the central point of the crossing, meaning that gravity would naturally gather rainwater in the tunnel.
“The Wavin system was
easy to handle compared to any concrete alternative – and that was important for teams working under time-pressure in a relatively inaccessible environment,” said Hendrik Nijland, project leader for the THV Locobouw consortium that designed and built the tunnel.
“In addition, Wavin demon- strated that the lifespan of the
products would meet the long-term demands of the job," he added. Wavin combined its standard
X-Stream components with custom built manholes and HDPE inspection chambers. These were individually specified and configured off-site to ensure speedy and trouble-free installation by the project team. ❙
www.wavin.com
January/February 2015 | PIPE & PROFILE EXTRUSION 5
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