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Process piping
Industrial process piping
Metallic process piping — prefabricated where we can, installed inside live plant where we must.
This page covers metallic piping. Polyethylene is on the HDPE page and composite on the GRP page.
Process piping inside an operating plant is governed by the outage, not by the quantity of pipe. The work that can be done beforehand should be, and the work that must happen in the window should arrive as components rather than as material.
Prefabrication first
Spools are fabricated, inspected and coated in the workshop, then delivered to site as numbered assemblies against an isometric. Site work reduces to positioning, fitting and closing welds — fewer permits, less scaffold time and far less exposure to weather and access restrictions.
Materials
- Carbon steel for general utility, firewater and plant services
- Stainless steel 304 and 316 for process and hygienic duty
- Duplex and super duplex for seawater and chloride-bearing service
- Lined and coated systems where the specification requires them
Live plant work
Tie-ins, valve replacement and line modification on systems that cannot be drained or depressurised for long. Fifteen years of continuous presence inside operating desalination plant has made permit work, isolation verification and confined space entry routine rather than exceptional.
- Hot and cold tie-ins to existing headers
- Valve replacement on seawater and process service
- Line modification, re-routing and branch additions
- Pipe support design review, replacement and re-levelling
- Hydrostatic and pneumatic testing with documented packs
- Structural steel, platforms and access provision around the work
Standards we work to
- ASME B31.3
- ASME B31.1
- ASME IX
- ASME B16.5
- AWS D1.1
- ISO 9606-1
Common questions
What clients ask before awarding
Do you prefabricate or build in place?
Can you work during a plant shutdown?
Which materials do you weld?
Do you handle the structural steel around the piping?
Send us the drawings. We will tell you what it takes.
BOQ, isometrics, specifications or a full tender package. Acknowledged within one working day, with the machine schedule and programme in the offer.
