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Europe. China and the USAwill followin the future.
The verifiable results in CO2 optimisation fromSAERTEX-LINER® UPgreen are passed on by SAERTEXmultiCom® to its customers each quarter. Customers receive a certificate for this purposewith an individual calculation of the CO2 savings for their orders in that time period. Customers can also substantiate their part of the CO2 savingswith this certificate. The first certificates have already been sent.
ROUNDUP sizeswithin its range
■ Single unitwith everything needed included – only a compressor is
required on site
■ Compact designwith a small footprint, offering greatmanoeuvrability and
includes a stair climbing aidwithin its built-inwheels
■ Tamper-proof pressure and temperaturemonitoring and recording
built-in
■ Video recording by on-board camera built-in
■ Metre counter feature
■ Remotemaintenance in real time by the IST Technical Teamin Germany if any troubleshooting is needed
■ 500 hour recommendedmaintenance intervals – longer than competitors
■ 230V operating voltage
SAERTEXmulticom– SAERTEXmultiCom introducedwhat is claimed to be theworld’s first GRP liner for trenchless rehabilitation of potablewater pipeswith UV curing in 2016. Today the company is setting additional milestones in order to save evenmore CO2 with this environmentally-friendly technology andmake its product range even more sustainable. Togetherwith Scott Bader, one of its strategic partners, the company has nowimplemented a significant innovation in the sustainable production of GRP pipe liners known as SAERTEX-LINER® UPgreen.
UPgreen technology is a sustainable process 16
optimisation in the production of glass fibre reinforced pipe liners. For impregnation of the SAERTEX LINER® carried out at the factory, SAERTEXmultiCom® relies on unsaturated polyester resins (UP resins) from Scott Baderwhich aremanufacturedwith a new, climate-friendly productionmethod. Since the last quarter of 2020, 70%of the UP resins supplied have been producedwith the newtechnology. As a result, in the last quarter of 2020 alone, 270,000 kg of CO2 have already been demonstrably savedwith around 160,000 runningmeters sold. That corresponds to the CO2 footprint of 723 flights fromFrankfurt amMain to NewYork.
“The newSAERTEX-LINER® UPgreen results in a targeted total CO2 savings ofmore than onemillion kilograms of CO2 a year thatwe want to achieve togetherwith our customers.” said Kai Diecks,Managing Director of SAERTEXmultiCom. “UPgreen is an important step towardsmore sustainability, andmany others are to follow soon.”
UPgreen technology is used for all SAERTEX- LINERs in the product range that use UP resins. These GRP pipe liners are used for trenchless rehabilitation ofmunicipal sewers and pipelines. The environmentally-friendly changeover of the UP resin systemhas no impact on the technical properties of the products. Therefore, customers do not have to take any technical changes into consideration for their projects. In addition, all further developments are in harmonywith all globally-existing product approvals, so they remain valid. So far, SAERTEXmultiCom® has launched the UPgreen technology in
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Itwould appear that the utilisation of light cured liners is on the increase across the globe but that the uptake in the UK is lagging somewhat behind. Thismay be because the technology has in the past appeared to be more costly, it is often the case that technologies are overlooked on the impression that high-techmeans high price ormore simply that the technology has not been availablewidely in the country, probably a bit of both.
However, increasingly end-users are seeing the benefits of light cure in terms of speed of installation, and theminimising of disruption that this can achieve particularly in crowded, highly trafficked, urban locations, so the likelihood is that the speed of uptakewill increase in coming years. In particular, the claims frommany if not all of the systems that they can operate a significantly reduced carbon footprint as comparedwithmore traditional lining optionsmay be a further significant driver as the surge towards net- zero gathers pace.
The fact that increasing numbers of equipment offerings andwider ranges of installation options are nowavailable give credence to the fact that light cure lining has yet to come of age fully in the UK – but it is getting
there.Watch this space!
Drain Trader’s thanks go to the following for their contributions to this article:
TomSangster atDownley Consultants;Dr DecDowney, Principal at Trenchless Opportunities Ltd and those companies herein that provided product information.
NextMonth:
Sustainability in the drainage industry.
Nextmonth our guestwriter Bridget Summers
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