Understanding Pe Fittings and Their Applications
Among the many materials used for manufacturing pipes and fittings, one of the newer materials is polyethylene, or PE, as it is commonly known. PE is a plastic material and as such has many advantageous properties such as higher strength, high temperature resistance, corrosion resistance, non-toxicity and resistance to rusting. While PE pipes have widespread applications, PE fittings, which are available in the form of pipe connector, mitering fittings, twisting fittings and more at leading PVC distributors and hardware suppliers, also have specific applications. These applications are as follows: 1.Electrofusion fittings made from PE are used in natural gas transmission and distribution. These fittings are extremely costly as they have the highest safety factor owing to the sensitive nature of the area of their application. Electrofusion PE fittings are joined through the heating method, which allows for making different types of joints such as pipe to pipe, knee and pipe, and pipe co