BLUTOP

The BLUTOP® range

As the final link in the water cycle before consumption in our homes, distribution pipes play a crucial role in ensuring a reliable supply of high-quality water. BLUTOP® is a dependable, proven solution for small-diameter pipes, eliminating the need to choose between flexibility and corrosion resistance, between competitiveness and durability, and between innovation and tradition.

Proven to significantly improve the operating efficiency and working conditions of pipe-laying teams at work sites, the award-winning BLUTOP range is ideal for use within drinking water distribution networks in urban, semi-urban and rural areas.

It has been designed to facilitate the extension or renewal of existing networks and, advantageously, is dimensionally compatible with existing plastic pipe (Polyethylene/PE and Polyvinyl Chloride/PVC) networks and their related connection and maintenance accessories.

Available with diameters of between 75 and 160 mm, the ductile cast iron pipes and fittings of the BLUTOP range are expected to last more than 100 years, due to their high mechanical strength, protection against soil and water aggression, guaranteed leak tightness, and flexible junctions.

Benefits 

• Innovation: The BLUTOP range benefits from the latest PAM technical advances, resulting in a lighter pipe that can be transported to hard-to-reach locations, carried on site by hand and insertd using a crowbar. The highly flexible joint facilitates pipe laying on uneven ground, in narrow trenches and confined spaces.
• Cost and time savings: the significant angular deviation (up to 6°) at joints necessitates fewer fittings and reduces the cost of works, while the easily-cleaned socket, easily-fitted pre-lubricated joint, thinner iron wall and hole-cutting tools reduce cutting times.
• Durability: the Ductan internal lining, which is inert in contact with drinking water, helps reduce head losses and, in turn, pumping costs. Also present in most PAM products, the BioZinalium protective exterior coating is designed to be very durable in underground conditions and has minimal enivronmental impact.
• Compliance: the BLUTOP range is accredited with a certificate of sanitary conformity for drinking water in accordance with all UK requirements. 

Product Specification

	SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT The BLUTOP® solution was developed in keeping with the principles of sustainable development and delivers outstanding environmental performance.
EXTENDED SERVICE LIFE As investment in renewing water supply infrastructure is declining in relative terms, water network managers are demanding longer service lives. Ductile iron components are not prone to ageing. Their mechanical properties remain constant over time.
	LEAKTIGHTNESS Reducing the amount of water lost in leaks from pipe systems is a major issue. BLUTOP® delivers a two-pronged solution, as ductile iron components (including pipes, fittings, valves and accessories) have an excellent reputation for both leaktightness and pressure resistance.
LESS ENERGY REQUIRED FOR PUMPING Improving leaktightness reduces head losses, which in turn saves energy.
	INSTALLATION BLUTOP® revolutionises pipe installation and use. Pipe-laying operations are quicker because pipes and fittings can be transported by hand and inserted using a crowbar.
OPERATION The BLUTOP® pipe range is compatible with existing plastic pipe networks and their related connection and maintenance accessories
	WATER QUALITY In accordance with the major European regulatory requirements, drinking water Certificates have been obtained for all materials used in the BLUTOP® range (DUCTAN® coating, epoxy, elastomers, lubricating paste and repair products).

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