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Borouge is an official member of the ‘PE100+’ Association, which is an organization, established in 1999 by the major polyethylene (PE) manufacturers Borealis, Elenac and Solvay. Currently it consists of eight PE100 compound manufacturing companies meeting certain quality benchmarks. BorSafe® HE3490-LS pipe grade, manufactured by Borouge in Ruwais (UAE) has passed all the requirements and is listed on the “PE100+ Quality Materials” list.
The main objective of the ‘PE100+’ Association is to guarantee consistent quality at the highest level in the production and use of PE100 pipe materials. The Association has an Advisory Committee comprising representatives from some of the major gas and water industries, pipe and fitting manufacturers and contractors. Although their main roles are market guidance and feedback, the committee helps ensure that industry requirements are fulfilled.
The Association updates the “PE100+ Quality Materials List” of high performance grades on a regular basis through the monitoring of the most critical properties namely the Creep Rupture Strength, Stress Crack Resistance and Resistance to Rapid Crack Propagation. The qualification procedure involves two rounds of stringent testing, administered by Gastec, who select samples every seven months from a list of batches produced in that period. Pipes produced from the selected batches undergo a pipe notch test, internal pressure test and S4 tests.
The ‘PE100+’ Association also organizes seminars around the world reinforcing the need to maintain high quality standards and the use of only pre-made compounds in order to safeguard the future the PE pipe industry. Over time the technical requirements of the PE100+ Association have become the reference standard in many countries where local standards and project specifications no longer represent the market needs.
Borouge manufactures this PE100 material in Ruwais complex (200 kilometers from Abu Dhabi city, UAE) since 2003 under the Borstar® technology.
For more information on ‘PE100+’ Association please visit www.PE100plus.net