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Kwik-ZIP HDX-90s installed on Steelmain’s DN800 MSCL for a Melbourne project.
kwik-ZIP spacers the only Australian-owned spacer on the market Casing spacers are used extensively in trenchless pipeline installations to facilitate the sliplining of a range of water and sewerage pipelines, preventing damage to both the carrier pipe and the casing during installation. Despite their widespread use, kwik-ZIP is the only Australian designed and made spacer and centraliser brand in the market.
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pacer systems can be used on a wide range of new and rehabilitated trenchless pipeline installations to proactively aid the installation process. kwik-ZIP’s casing spacer and centraliser systems help contractors to comply with regulations that require casing centralizers or pipe spacers (also referred to as slippers or spiders), like wastewater and sewerage codes and water well construction standards. Developed by drilling professionals, these centraliser and spacer systems are solving centralisation challenges around the world. The kwik-ZIP product range is entirely Australian owned and designed, making it the only of its kind. But despite its local origins, kwik-ZIP products now serve many different market sectios in the USA, UK, continental Europe, the Middle East, and Central and South America. Kwik-ZIP’s spacers and centralisers are applicable for use on a range of different pipe profiles, with varying surfaces, on open bores and pipe bundle arrangements, and across pipe-in-pipe applications such as sliplining. The range can accommodate large diameters by joining additional segments - installation only requires a flat-blade screwdriver. The range is constructed from kwik-ZIP’s engineered 58 TRENCHLESS AUSTRALASIA DECEMBER 2021
Kwik-ZIP 103s installed on DN1200mm PE water pipeline for a project in New Zealand.
