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Rehabilitation’, who have also been installing the solutions themselves since 2017 following extensive installation training.
Partnerships and future orientation
The German engineer Heiko Manzke has been responsible for Australia and New Zealand since 2019. After many years at Primus Line’s headquarters in Germany, he has relocated to the east coast of Australia and is contributing his technical expertise to the network built up by his predecessor, expanding it further and acting in an advisory capacity.
In addition to many rehabilitated wastewater pressure pipes, also unusual projects such as the rehabilitation of a vertical pipe and the first 3-in-1 project implemented in Australia with Hunter Water fall in his period of activity. Projects were also realised in New Zealand and with the mine operator Rio Tinto. A milestone during the coronavirus pandemic was the partnership agreement with Interflow, one of Australia’s market leaders for water and pipework infrastructure: Interflow took Primus Line products into stock to reduce delivery times for emergency projects. The exclusive contract ended in mid-2024.
In future, Primus Line will work with regional specialists in the water sector alongside their existing installation partners, which will continue to include Interflow. The efforts to expand the use of Primus Line® Overland Piping as a temporary, above-ground pipeline in mining are showing initial success.
Conclusion
“Australia and New Zealand are extremely interesting markets for a pioneering product like ours,” states Heiko Manzke. “The local network operators and engineering firms are highly qualified and therefore greatly appreciate a high-quality product ‘made in Germany’. At Primus Line, we offer a carefree all-in-one package: a first-class product with excellent customer support, combined with unrivalled expertise in the field of flexible piping,” he continues. “Nobody in the world can hold a candle to us in this area, and our customers in Australia and New Zealand recognise and appreciate that.” Andreas Gross, who pioneered the work for Primus Line in Australia, adds: “As water is an increasingly scarce resource in Australia, awareness of efficient and resource-saving solutions is high. There is a strong openness to innovative and trenchless technologies. This opens up excellent opportunities on the Australian market for companies that offer technological and environmentally friendly approaches.”
Primus Line projects in Australia and New Zealand – figures and facts
• More than 70 projects realised in total
• Longest rehabilitated stretch: around 3,000 metres on Ann Street in Brisbane with Urban Utilities
• Longest single-shot installation: 1,400 metres in one pull at Mt. Cole, VIC, for GWM Water
• Preferred applications: Rehabilitation of pipes in sensitive environments such as cultural heritage sites, city centres,
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under railway tracks, roads or rivers • Awards
◦ ‘ASTT Trenchless Rehabilitation Project of the Year’ 2019 for an emergency rehabilitation under Biggera Creek on the Gold Coast: Thanks to the combined material and human resources of various Primus Line installation partners, the rehabilitation was completed in just one working day.
◦ ‘Infrastructure Project Innovation’ at the AWA VIC Water Awards for the Mount Cole 2022 project in Victoria: This
involved the rehabilitation of almost 1,400 metres of raw water pipeline in a sensitive area that is difficult to access.
About the Primus Line products
Primus Line® Rehab is an innovative technology for the trenchless rehabilitation of pressure pipelines for various media such as water, gas and oil. Thanks to insertion lengths of up to 2,500 metres, a bendability of up to 90 degrees, low machine usage and insertion speeds of up to 10 metres per minute, Primus Line® Rehab makes the rehabilitation of ageing pipes quick and easy. This makes the system particularly suitable for environments with high geographical, economic, architectural or ecological requirements.
Primus Line® Overland Piping is an environmentally orientated, retractable and reusable solution for multiple applications. It is extremely quick to install and has been specially developed for the above-ground transport of demanding and potentially hazardous media.
Exceptional project number 2: In Sydney‘s underground, a more than 100 metre long vertical sewage pipe was rehabilitated with Primus Line® Rehab.
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