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Article: Hobas Pipe offers non-circular profiles.(News)
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- Plastics News
- Article date:
- October 26, 2009
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Byline: Matt Griswold
Houston-based thermoset pipe maker Hobas Pipe USA is now offering non-circular profiles to the North American sanitary sewer market.
The longtime manufacturer of centrifugally cast, fiberglass-reinforced polyester pipe is targeting the aging infrastructure market with its trenchless pipe rehabilitation technology.
Hobas Pipe USA is a subsidiary of Basel, Switzerland-based Hobas Engineering + Rohre AG, which is celebrating its 50th anniversary this year.
The non-circular profiles are being custom-shaped and filament-wound to order at a Hobas facility in Germany, but production will be moved to the Houston facility ...