news PPI members win at pipe awards
An indoor radiant heating application that uses more than 90km of PEX pipe is among the winners of this year’s Plastic Pipe Institute (PPI) awards in the USA. The project saw Rehau
supply the pipe for the hydronic radiant heating and cooling systems in three buildings at the University of Chicago. It is now being considered for US Green Build- ing Council LEED Gold certification.
Amaplast
for Italian machinery
Assocomaplast, the trade association for Italian manufacturers of plastics and rubber processing machinery, was renamed Amaplast in June. It has also introduced a
shorter acronym (AMP), which features the colours of the Italian flag (red, white and green). The organisation said that the new name ‘sends a positive signal and strengthens the idea of a group of companies that are committed to developing and promoting cutting edge technologies to produce quality products, with great concern for eco-sustaina- bility, reduction in resource use and energy savings’. The association says that
it represents more than 160 companies. ❙
www.amaplast.org
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$2m design competition targets marine waste
$2m prize aims to remove waste plastics from the oceans
Last month saw the launch of a $2m prize by the Ellen MacArthur Foundation intended to encour- age plastics packaging designs that will help to minimise marine pollution. Launched in London by the foundation
together with New Plastics Economy Lead Philantropic Partner Wendy Schmidt and The Prince of Wales’s International Sustainability Unit, the $1m Circular Design Challenge, which invites applicants to rethink how products can get to people without generating plastic waste, and the $1m Circular Materials Challenge, which seeks ways to make all plastic packaging recyclable. “After 40 years of effort, globally only 14% of plastic packaging is collected for recycling, with
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one third escaping collection and ending up in the environment,” said Ellen MacArthur. “If we want to change this, we must fundamentally rethink the way we make and use plastics. We need better materials, clever product designs and circular business models.” Entrants will be competing for grants and
visibility for their solutions to major businesses, the innovator community and the public. Winners will also enter a 12-month accelerator programme offering commercial guidance, feedback on user and scalability requirements, advice on performance expectations, and access to innovation labs for testing and development. The first winners will be announced later this year. ❙
www.newplasticseconomy.org
www.pipeandprofile.com
Stations of pre-fabricated PEX tubing circuits and manifolds were assembled on-site in centralised loca- tions, to cut installation time and keep up with floor-by-floor construction. The overall aim of the building project was to reduced energy consumption by 41%. In ‘Power & Communica-
tions’, more than 8,700ft (2,600m) of cable in conduit (CIC) – in various sizes – was
laid by Southwire, in order to supply power to multiple housing units in Mentone, Texas.
As well as supplying the HDPE CIC, Southwire docu- mented the installation on social media – to help educate contractors, installers and engineers about the product and process.
In the ‘Municipal &
Industrial’ category, Isco Industries was recognised for its role in replacing an existing
54in (1.4m) sanitary sewer main in Miami Beach with bimodal HDPE pipe – which made horizontal directional drilling (HDD) feasible, allowing the busy residential and tourist area to remain open during construction. And, in the corrugated pipe
award, contractors in Quebec, Canada built a complete storm sewer using more than 5,500ft (1700m) corrugated HDPE pipe from Soleno. ❙
www.plasticpipe.org
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