This is your last week to take advantage of Ozpipe XIX Early Bird Registration rates, which close Friday 20 September. 

PIPA members Iplex, Vinidex and Qenos represented the Australian plastics pipe industry at No-Dig Downunder in Melbourne this week. No-Dig Downunder is Australia's premier technical conference and exhibition focussed on trenchless pipe installation and renovation methodologies. These processes are becoming critically important as Australia's clay, concrete, asbestos cement and iron pipeline infrastructure reaches the end [...]

Mr David Livermore, Iplex Pipelines' Head of Marketing and Technical has taken over the chairmanship of PIPA from Mr Mark Nykiel, whose term expired prior to the AGM on 3 September. Mr Nykiel remains a Category A Member of the PIPA Board of Directors. Additionally, Mr Peter McLennan of Agru Australia has replaced Mr Richard [...]

PIPA has revised and published POP004 (Issue 19) to include two additional PE100 coloured stripe materials, lime green and yellow, manufactured by PolyPacific.

The Plastic Pipes Conference Association (PPCA) has highlighted the promotional and networking opportunities of its next conference and exhibition, PLASTIC PIPES XX. Hosted in Amsterdam at the Hotel Okura, this event will be held September 21 - 23, 2020. Zoran Davidovski, Chair of the PPXX Organizing Committee remarks: “Amsterdam is a very appropriate venue for our twentieth conference. [...]

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Dr Alan Whittle, Chair of PIPA's PE and PVC Technical Committees represented the plastics pipe and fittings industry at the Australian Gas and Pipe Association's launch of the Code of Practice for Upstream PE Gathering Networks (CoP) in Brisbane 8 August 2019. Version 5 of the CoP will be gazetted into Queensland legislation before the [...]

Our EGM has announced his retirement from paid employment, and we are calling for applications from suitably qualified candidates for the position. If you are interested in a challenging and rewarding role and can demonstrate you have the necessary skills and experience to head up PIPA, we’d be interested to hear from you. Click here [...]

An invitation is extended to all financial members, to attend the PIPA Annual General Meeting, to be held on Tuesday 3rd September 2019 in the Heritage Room of the InterContinental Hotel, 117 Macquarie Street, Sydney, commencing at 3:00 pm. This is a great opportunity for members to learn how PIPA is acting in your interests [...]