With more than 40 years as a global manufacturer of rehabilitation solutions, NordiTube Technologies has brought the next level of pressure and gravity liners to New Zealand with its local partner, PipeWorks.
Starting with its roots in Belgium, NordiTube Technologies quickly expanded to become a market leader in Europe, North America, and Asia, providing pressure rehabilitation solutions for the water, gas, industry and sewer-main markets.
Now, 40 years later, NordiTube Technologies has manufacturing facilities in Europe, Vietnam, America, and China.
The company reaches its customers globally with fast and effective lead times, local technical support offices, and local partners. This includes NordiTube having an office in Adelaide and Sydney for the Australian and New Zealand markets.
For more than 20 years, PipeWorks has provided customers with rehabilitation solutions for their networks.
Solutions
In 2024, NordiTube and PipeWorks teamed up to reduce water loss and protect the environment from pollutants by providing New Zealand municipalities with solutions that allow them to repair their aging pipe infrastructure quickly, cost-effectively, and with minimum damage to the environment and community.
The companies accomplish this by providing the full solution from start to finish – advising and then providing customers with a full line of solutions for their water, wastewater, stormwater, oil, and industry pipeline assets.
A flagship solution for network operators worldwide is the Nordiflow, a new pressure pipe within the old pipe. The Nordiflow is a trenchless cured-in-place (CIPP) pipe solution.
Network operators face issues with budget and time restrictions, as well as community and environmental impacts when maintaining their pipe network.
When integrating the Nordiflow system into their aging network, network operators can expect 30–70 per cent of the cost of replacement and up to five times faster reinstatement of the network.
Additionally, there will be no disruption to the community or damage to underground or aboveground assets. Increases in hydraulic capacity are also possible with NordiFlow’s smooth inner PE surface.
Approved
The Nordiflow comes in sizes DN150-1400 and is used for water and sewer mains and high temperature lines, and is AS/NZS 4020 approved and under the WSAA appraisal (PA2303).
In Auckland, PipeWorks utilised this game-changing solution in the city’s network.
The section posed a challenge for the designers because the pipe was parallel to a busy intersection.
The line was located under a pedestrian footpath with several residential driveways, which meant that open-dig pipe replacement was immediately out of the question because of the cost, time, and damage to the community.
NordiTube and Pipeworks identified the network operator’s problem in their network, offered the best solution, designed the Nordiflow to match a minimum 50-year lifetime in the network, manufactured, sent, and then installed the Nordiflow to reinstate the network.
This whole process happened in less than a month.
PipeWorks will continue to provide innovative NordiTube rehabilitation solutions to the New Zealand communities.
For more information, visit norditube.com and brianperrycivil.co.nz
This article featured in the October edition of Trenchless Australasia.
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