Top Industrial Pipelining Concerns & Empipe’s Solution

What are the top concerns in industrial pipelining? Stephen Mercer, founder and general manager of Empipe Infrastructure Group, highlights the main pipelining challenges and explains how Empipe works to address these key issues.

SIPP vs. CIPP: What’s the Difference?

  Trenchless utility repair is quickly becoming the best approach to rehabilitating underground sewer infrastructure that’s succumbing to age and overstrained capacity demands. The opportunity to avoid costly and invasive trenching and construction comes from the ongoing development of poly and epoxy resins. Applied to the interior of damaged pipes to restore their integrity, these … Read more

Pipe Inspection Warning Signs

What are the top three warning signs to watch for in a pipe inspection? Stephen Mercer, Founder and General Manager of Empipe Infrastructure Group, highlights some of the top things he looks for from a rehabilitation standpoint to get the pipe back to a structurally sound condition. Learn more at empipe.ca.

A Closer Look at ANSI/NSF/CAN 61 Standards for Trenchless Pipe Repair

The American National Standards Institute (ANSI) is responsible for establishing general guidelines for public safety across a wide breadth of focus areas — among them, standards for Drinking Water System Components. Developed in conjunction with the National Science Foundation (NSF) and updated with Canadian requirements by the Standards Council of Canada (SCC), these standards are … Read more

Every Sewer Repair Begins with an Evaluation

As Canada’s infrastructure ages, the odds of municipalities, commercial property owners, and individual homeowners being faced with sewer damage increases. Identifying the true source — and even the precise location — of underground infrastructure problems is challenging without the right technology. Now, methods like closed-circuit television (CCTV) inspections, smoke tests, and precision cleaning are taking … Read more

An Overview of Polymeric SIPP Coating Materials

Aging wastewater infrastructure faces no shortage of challenges. From fat, oils, and grease (FOG) buildups to corrosion caused by hydrogen sulfide (H2S), to the damage evoked by inflow and infiltration (I/I) incidents and outsized flow rates, there’s continuous need for repair and rehabilitation. The rise of trenchless repair solutions has made it possible for repair … Read more