IRON PIPES.

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXVII, Issue 4932, 29 January 1926, Page 4

IRON PIPES.

CENTRIFUGALLY MADE Reference has been made previously to this new system of making cast iron pipes centrifugally by the Stanton Ironworks Co., Ltd., near Nottingham. These “Spun” iron pipes have now been on the market for the past year or two and continue to be received with increasing favour by engineers generally. It will be remembered that the Stanton Co. are at the present time only making these pipes in diameters from 4in up to 15in, and all of them in 12ft lengths. Up to October 31st, 1925, the company had received orders for 1621 miles of these pipes, of which 1181 miles represented repeat orders from those who had previously tried the pipes.' The output of the present centrifugal plant at Stanton exceeds 30 miles of pipes per week, within the range given above. The capacity of the *plant, however, is materially too small for meeting the requirements of the markets, and steps are being taken towards increasing this output. These pipes are being used for general purposes where the ordinary cast iron pipe was previously used. They are being shipped all over the world and enable the’Stanton Co. to meet competition abroad, where otherwise pipes would be supplied from the Continent.

It will be remembered that the resulting material of which the “Spun” pipe is made is some 75 per cent, stronger than the ordinary cast iron in a vertically cast pipe, and this enables the Stanton Co. to supply a pipe about 25 per cent, thinner than the ordinary cast iron pipe, but with a resulting strength materially greater. —British Commercial News.