Corporate Research and Development

Pipelife’s Corporate R&D is closely integrated in Pipelife’s Marketing & Innovation Team to ensure the needs of tomorrow:

• very quick response time
• new products really needed
• a fast time to market

Therefore we have motivated project teams who are executing the projects from idea to the first sales and - if necessary - far behind. Project Managers/ Leaders guide the projects in close relations with their sponsors, principals, management teams and Product Managers and have their skills in the following areas:

 

• Product developments in new business areas
• Pipe developments in combination with extrusion processes
• Fittings, seals and accessoreis in combination with injection moulding
• Material developement, compounding and performance
• Standardisation items

Cooperation with customers, testing and certifications by external laboratories are major important in Pipelife’s design world, but we also have great design tools available and a well equipped laboratory and testing department.

 

Tools we use today are:

• Autocad for 2D and 3D drawings
• Solidworks for advanced 3D drawings and visualisations
• 3D printers for rapidly prototype, our most complicated designs
• Abaqus for calculating strength, stiffness and to predict failure dangers
• A fully equipped workshop, in which first prototypes see their first daylight

Our laboratory can test pipes, fittings and accessories in almost all dimensions.

Key test are:

• Lifetime prediction measurements at elevated temperatures
• Long term creep tests
• Tightness fatigue testing
• Impact, strength and stiffness testing
• Material analyses testing with DSC, Infrared, Microscopy, etc.
  

For more detailed information, please contact us.