P-Ex Pipe
Weswell Polytubes Pipes is the manufacturing of PEX Pipes in various sizes with many colors. PEX is part of a water supply piping system that has several advantages over metal pipe (copper, iron, lead) or rigid plastic pipe (PVC, CPVC, ABS) systems. It is flexible, resistant to scale and chlorine, doesn’t corrode or develop pinholes, is faster to install than metal or rigid plastic, and has fewer connections and fittings.
PEX tubing is made from cross-linked HDPE (high density polyethylene) polymer. The HDPE is melted and continuously extruded into tube. The crosslinking of the HDPE is accomplished in one of three different methods.
Advantages of PEX PIPE
- Flexible PEX tube is manufactured by extrusion, and shipped and stored on spools, where rigid plastic or metal piping must be cut to some practical length for shipping and storage. This leads to several advantages, including lower shipping and handling costs due to decreased weight and improved storage
- PEX plumbing installations require fewer fittings than rigid piping. The flexible tubing can turn 90 degree corners without the need for elbow fittings, and PEX tubing unrolled from spools can be installed in long runs without the need for coupling
- Attaching PEX tube to fittings does not require soldering, and so eliminates the health hazards involved with lead-based solder and acid fluxes; PEX is also safer to install since a torch is not needed to make
- PEX resists the scale build-up common with copper pipe, and does not pit or corrode when exposed to acidic
- PEX pipes is much more resistant to freeze-breakage than copper or rigid plastic
- PEX tubing does not transfer heat as readily as copper, and so conserves
- Water flows more quietly through PEX tube, and the characteristic “water hammer” noise of copper pipe systems is virtually
- PEX plumbing installations cost less because:
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- PEX pipes is less expensive than copper
- Less time is spent running pipe and installing fittings than with rigid pipe
- Installing fewer fittings reduces the chances for expensive
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- FieldofUse
The use of Westwell PEX Pipes is universal and it is used especially in the following areas :
- (A) In Buildings,(apartments, condominium, residential buildings, hospitals, schools, housing, commercial buildings,hotels, restaurants, shopping centers, offices, industry, factory, technical installations) for carriage of HOT and COLD water.
- (B) ln Sea establishments, coastal areas for its resistance to brackish
- (C) ln Bui dings, cities where hard water is supplied. (Treated river water)
- (D) In Buildings and Establishments for carriage of drinking and calcareous water, off and highly corrosive