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Article: Independent Pipe grows East Coast site.(News)
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- Plastics News
- Article date:
- November 9, 2009
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Byline: Matt Griswold
The new Independent Pipe Products Inc. plant in Abbeville, S.C. still being renovated and expanded is a microcosm of the ever-evolving plastics industry, and a testament to innovative manufacturing, even while producing simple shapes.
The longtime high density polyethylene fittings fabricator is growing its pipe-extrusion business and using what company officials believe is the latest and greatest in tooling, extrusion and auxiliary equipment technology to carve out its piece of the pie in the sector.
Project manager Jim Copeland came out of retirement to oversee the formation of Dallas-based Independent Pipe's East ...