Plastic pipe use to outpace competitors

Plastic pipe demand will significantly outpace other pipe materials with a 4Vo per year growth, reaching 3.7 billion feet in 1997, industry analyst Willian Weizer claims, acributing the growth to plastic's performance and installation cost advanta8es.

drainage and sewer systems, will increase needs. Other growth ma*ets include tbe energy sector and agriculture.

Plastic Pipe Demand By Resin,l99il

Demand from the potable water and drain/sewer market will be Oe strongest for polyvinyl chloride, which will remain the most prominent pipe resin, increasing 4% ananally !o 44 billion pounds.

reports. In conduit uses, pvc pipe will grow at a 4% annual pace to 633 million pounds in 1997, but increasing competition with polyethylene may limit its fuurre growfr.

Construction markets will provide the best opporunities due to rebounding building activity. Potable water and drain/waste/vent pipe, as well as the rehabilitation and upgrading of

In cold water applications, pvc offers advantages over copper pipe such as lower cost and easy insrlilation since it is solvent welded. However, it suffers from lack of a track record to prove its durability and a "metal mentality" nmotrg engineen, arciitects and onstnrction workers which prevents then from embracing plastic pipe, Weizer

Polyethylene pipe denand is pro jected to grow 3.7% per year ttuongD 1997 due o oppomnitie.s in pressne pipe for municipal and indusrial appli@ions md increased use of renchless pipe laying rcchniques. Drain and sewer us€s, Oe largest martet, will increase 4.3% annually ta 231 million pounds in 1997 due ro admnes in dual+xtrusfun" dual-wall pipe featuring smooth inrcrior and comrgated extefio( surfaces. Small dinmeter polye0ylene pipe for gas distribution will remain one of the largest individual applkarions due to its ost efficiency in perfumance md insallation

Demand fa all pipe wiX increase 2.5% pr year to 102 billion feet in 1997 as cmstnrction rcbounds and tb economy improves, The Freedonia Crroup reput concludes.

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