Rapp-it Pipe Repair saves the day for BHP Billiton yet again!
Rapp-it Pipe Repair saves thousands of dollars annually for many mining companies around the world. Mining operations of any size can benefit from using Rapp-it Pipe Repair to avoid an unscheduled shut down caused by a leaking pipe. Rapp-it has numerous applications for emergency repairs to fix pipe leaks in many different types of mines, including coal, gold, nickel and bauxite mines.
Because high pressure water supply is a necessary component of all mines, they need to maintain a reliable network of pipes that can deliver across vast distances as well as depths. In all situations, Rapp-it Pipe Repair creates an almost instant, on-site repair so that production can resume virtually immediately – with no downtime or costly maintenance and labour charges.
BHP Billiton, the leading global resources company, has regularly relied on Rapp-it Pipe Repair as their key pipe repair solution for many years. Recently on one of BHP’s nickel mines, the main trunk line from the bore fields needed to be repaired. Fortunately the site maintenance supervisor had Rapp-it on hand to repair the pipe. Despite the damaged pipe having a very large diameter of 600mm, it was still repaired successfully by using multiple rolls of Rapp-it.
The site maintenance supervisor described the pipe repair (pictured left) as follows: “The pipe is a 600mm diameter (outside diameter) mild steel concrete lined pipe (mscl) with a sinter exterior plastic coat. The pipe pressure sits around 1600kpa, varying temperature from around 20 degrees C in winter and up to 50 degrees C in the middle of summer, and a flow around 24-30 mega litres per hour of hyper saline water. This pipe is our main trunk line from our bore fields and is around 20km long. Around 15 to 20 bandages were used to Rapp-it.”
BHP’s global success relies on their good contingency planning and the fact that Rapp-it Pipe Repair is deployed by BHP speaks volumes of the product’s ability to meet the mining industries most stringent standards for quality, reliability and ease of use.
As you can imagine with such a vital pipe as the main trunk line, resuming operations and production following a pipe leak within the shortest time frame was crucial. This is where Rapp-it Pipe Repair is an amazing solution.
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Another of our regular customers, Tiwest Joint Venture (the world's largest integrated titanium minerals production and manufacturing company) was so pleased with Rapp-it’s contribution to their ongoing operational success that they sent us the following letter of recommendation:
"We would like to advise that we have been using Rapp-it Pipe Repair Bandage for leakage applications for the past four years. It has been extremely reliable with regards to pipe repairs. Approximately $20,000 annually are saved on costly downtime and we have no hesitation in recommending Rapp-it Pipe Repair Bandage for these purposes.
We trust that anyone who is interested in using Rapp-it Pipe Repair Bandage would have no regrets in the future.
Yours sincerely,
Russell Wiltshire
Supply Supervisor"
Rapp-it Pipe Repair saves thousands of dollars annually for many mining companies around the world. Mining operations of any size can benefit from using Rapp-it Pipe Repair to avoid an unscheduled shut down caused by a leaking pipe. Rapp-it has numerous applications for emergency repairs to fix pipe leaks in many different types of mines, including coal, gold, nickel and bauxite mines.
Because high pressure water supply is a necessary component of all mines, they need to maintain a reliable network of pipes that can deliver across vast distances as well as depths. In all situations, Rapp-it Pipe Repair creates an almost instant, on-site repair so that production can resume virtually immediately – with no downtime or costly maintenance and labour charges.
BHP Billiton, the leading global resources company, has regularly relied on Rapp-it Pipe Repair as their key pipe repair solution for many years. Recently on one of BHP’s nickel mines, the main trunk line from the bore fields needed to be repaired. Fortunately the site maintenance supervisor had Rapp-it on hand to repair the pipe. Despite the damaged pipe having a very large diameter of 600mm, it was still repaired successfully by using multiple rolls of Rapp-it.
The site maintenance supervisor described the pipe repair (pictured left) as follows: “The pipe is a 600mm diameter (outside diameter) mild steel concrete lined pipe (mscl) with a sinter exterior plastic coat. The pipe pressure sits around 1600kpa, varying temperature from around 20 degrees C in winter and up to 50 degrees C in the middle of summer, and a flow around 24-30 mega litres per hour of hyper saline water. This pipe is our main trunk line from our bore fields and is around 20km long. Around 15 to 20 bandages were used to Rapp-it.”BHP’s global success relies on their good contingency planning and the fact that Rapp-it Pipe Repair is deployed by BHP speaks volumes of the product’s ability to meet the mining industries most stringent standards for quality, reliability and ease of use.
As you can imagine with such a vital pipe as the main trunk line, resuming operations and production following a pipe leak within the shortest time frame was crucial. This is where Rapp-it Pipe Repair is an amazing solution.
Another of our regular customers, Tiwest Joint Venture (the world's largest integrated titanium minerals production and manufacturing company) was so pleased with Rapp-it’s contribution to their ongoing operational success that they sent us the following letter of recommendation:
"We would like to advise that we have been using Rapp-it Pipe Repair Bandage for leakage applications for the past four years. It has been extremely reliable with regards to pipe repairs. Approximately $20,000 annually are saved on costly downtime and we have no hesitation in recommending Rapp-it Pipe Repair Bandage for these purposes.
We trust that anyone who is interested in using Rapp-it Pipe Repair Bandage would have no regrets in the future.
Yours sincerely,
Russell Wiltshire
Supply Supervisor"
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