Australian Water Management Review Vol. 1 2014 | Page 127

JOINING PIPES Joining pipes STRAUB Pipe Couplings THE EASY the eAsY pipe for plain ended WAYconnections pipe joint The Simplify Simplify your pipe joining you can trust. The limitations of traditional pipe-joining techniques are well known. Welding is hazardous and time-consuming, and quality is variable; flanges are labour-intensive, time consuming and rigid; and Gibault- or Dresser-style joints are heavy and cumbersome. There is a solution. For building construction or civil engineering, mining, water and waste water installations, The STRAUBTM Pipe Coupling is designed to power plants or industrial plants, do the tough or as a shipbuilding/offshore jobs, yet simplify the process of joining pipes, and give you functionality and machinery component. The STRAUB Pipe Coupling designs. flexibility in your pipe joints andis It’s a nifty piece simplify the process designed to of kit! your pipe joining of joining two pieces of pipe, yet The StraubTM Pipe Coupling is the new generation of pipe joint that eliminates all these issues. They are lightweight but, thanks to the progressive sealing and anchoring effects, just as effective, yet so easy and quick to install. One worker can join a DN 800 pipe in minutes with a coupling on her shoulder and a torque wrench in her pocket. She doesn’t need a team or expensive lifting equipment to carry Gibault joints, flanges or heavy welding gear. The GRIP L Coupling provides a pull-out resistant in your pipe joints and designs. for Pipe Joint that is suitable DICL, Spiral Stainless, Copper Nickel etc. Available for Pipe ODs 26.9 - 609.6mm in both The gRIP L Coupling provides a EPDM & NBR Sealing Sleeves. Pull-out pipe hangers Used eg withresistant Pipe for Joint that is suitable for water distribution, or on other pressure pipes. Stainless, DICL, Spiral giving you functionality and flexibility Copper Nickel etc. The FLEX Coupling provides an Available Pipe Joint that axially flexible for Pipe OD’s is suitable for most pipe materials. 26.9 - 609.6 mm in both EPDM & STRAUB-GRIPAvailable for Pipe ODs 48.3 is the ultimate NBR Sealing Sleeves.both pull-outNBR 4064.0 mm in EPDM & resistant pipe jointSealing Sleeves. Used eg on water for all metal pipes, plastic pipes or plastic to metal pipes. mains buried underground. The FLeX Coupling provides an Axially Flexible Pipe STRAUB-FLEX and STRAUB-OPEN Joint that STRAUB all pipe materials and absorb FLEX are forADVANTAGESis suitable TM OD Coupling See the difference! For the same oD and pressure, a StraubTm Pipe coupling with 2 bolts (left) does the same job as the multi-bolt flange, right Straub Pipe Couplings can also cover gaps between pipe ends, axial misalignment and angular deflection. They can absorb movement such as vibrations (e.g. from (eg from pumps or ground settling) and can be used on pipes of different materials. You just need to tighten a couple of bolts to install them, so no hot work permits are required. for most contraction. • Reusable noise, vibration, expansion andpipe materials. Available • Compensates for Angular Deflection • Allows for Pipe Gaps Pipe OD’s 48.3 for for STRAUB-CLAMP is the ideal clamp • Installs in Minutes of damaged both safe and reliable repair 4064.0 mm in pipes of• Absorbs Expansion and Contraction (Flex-type) any material. & NBR Sealing Sleeves. EPDM • Backed by 45 Years of Global Experience • KCES as your local partner They can also be removed and reused, enabling pipes to be accessed quickly and and easily as needneed arises, such asmonitoring or maintenance. Thanks to their easily as the the arises, such as for for monitoring or maintenance. Thanks to coupling australian their compact and light light weight, can also be easilyeasily carried to locationsare compact size size and weight, they they can also be carried to locations that with that are difficult to Some larger ones can even be even be ordered in two halves. difficult to access. access. Some larger ones can ordered in 2 halves. This makes This makes them the ideal solution changes or work in confined spaces such as work in confined them the ideal solution for repairs, for repairs, changes or european experience spaces such as tunnels orwhere alternative methods would methods would be too tunnels or existing plant, existing plant, where alternative be too cumbersome or cumbersomehelpful and The helpful and informative KCES website showcases unsafe. The or unsafe. informative KCES website showcases other clever Straub other clever and solutions. innovations Straub innovations and solutions. Contact KCeS for further information: Straub Pipe Couplings are the pipe joint you can trust. They have a proud 45 year Phone: [phone] Fax: +61 3 the world. history and have been used extensively in water industries across9728 2973 Website: www.kces.com.au Email: [email protected] Changing to Straub really can make your life easier. Rethink how you join your Supplied by: STRAUB AdvAnTAgeS • Reusable • Compensate Angular Deflection • Allows for Pipe Gaps • Ease of Installation Call KCES for further information: Contact KCES for a no-obligation chat or quote • Compensates Expansion Phone: [phone] Fax: [phone] Phone: +61 3 9