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Article: IPPI's 65-inch line to anchor new US plant.(News)
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- Plastics News
- Article date:
- April 27, 2009
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Byline: Matt Griswold
Dallas-based high density polyethylene pipe and fittings maker Independent Pipe Products Inc. has added a new American Maplan extrusion line capable of making pipe in diameters up to 65 inches.
The large-diameter machine will be the centerpiece of an IPPI plant that company officials expect to open by mid-2010. The plant will feature six or seven lines, Ron Hopton-Jones, IPPI's president, said in an April 23 telephone interview.
Hopton-Jones said the new plant will employ about 30. The company buys American Maplan extrusion lines, he said.
IPPI has been fabricating HDPE pipe fittings for about 30 years, cutting ...