After using kwik-ZIP spacers for many years, trenchless professionals across Australia swear by the technology.
When it comes to choosing a quick and efficient spacer and centraliser solution in a trenchless application, one name comes to mind for Pezzimenti Trenchless managing director Joe Pezzimenti.
“Pezzimenti Trenchless has been using kwik-ZIP spacers for slip lining installations for many years,” Joe said.
In one project instance, kwik-ZIP HDX-90 spacers were installed to facilitate the slip-lining of an 813mm cement lined steel water main into a steel encasing pipe by Pezzimenti Trenchless.
“Whether the carrier pipe is plastic, GRP or heavy weight steel, kwik-ZIP has a spacer to do the job,” Joe said.
“Their technical support and excellent customer service make using kwik-ZIP spacers an easy decision.”
kwik-ZIP’s large scope of spacers cater for a wide range of carrier and casing pipe size combinations as well as providing flexibility to deal with project alterations.
Manufactured from high grade thermoplastic, kwik-ZIP casing spacers and centraliser products are used and recommended by pipeline and civil contractors as well as commercial plumbing companies, water authorities, water well drillers and international engineering firms throughout Australia.
kwik-ZIP spacers have no metal parts and are made from its engineered thermoplastic blend that is flexible and extremely tough.
Not only are the products low co-efficient of friction, but they also minimise the installation forces for large bore pipes.
kwik-ZIP maintains a focus on price effectiveness, simplicity, and rapid on-site assembly, to ensure that its systems deliver significant cost, time, and operational advantages to our customers.
Capable of handling steel, DICL, HDPE, concrete and MSCL carrier pipes at a wide range of sizes, kwik-ZIP’s HDX Series minimises potential damaging vibration and movement transfers from the outer casing to the carrier pipe via innovative suspension and dampening technologies.
Likewise, kwik-ZIP’s spacers contain no lead content or metals – ensuring it is fully compatible with all potable water applications and resistant to corrosion and rust.
The systems are now used extensively in production well completion, horizontal directional drilling, microtunnelling, rock bolt and anchor centralisation and trenchless pipeline installations across Australia, New Zealand, the UK, and the US.
kwik-ZIP spacers are one of the only Australian-owned products of its kind on the market.
Both HDX and HDXT Series spacers have been certified and approved by the Water Services Association of Australia against its Product Specification WSA PA 324 Casing Spacers.
For more information, visit kwik-ZIP’s website.
This article featured in the February edition of Trenchless Australasia.
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