WEHOLITE offers a wide range of advantages over other types of pipe for many low pressure applications.

These include:

• High durability - well proven history of use in water and gas industry

• Excellent mechanical properties - within a temperature range -30˚C to +45˚C

• High abrasion resistance - superior to concrete as proven by independent research

• Ease of handling and installation

• Low maintenance costs

• Tolerant of ground movement in poor ground conditions

• Resistant to a wide range of chemicals ISO 10358

• Design life is greater than 120 years

Health and Safety Benefits

ASSET WEHOLITE combines light weight with high strength making handling and installation on site relatively safe and cost-effective when compared to other materials.

It offers distinctive advantages for a safer working environment through:

Overall reduction in time on site

Excavations opened for much shorter periods, thus less risk to third parties and less time spent working in excavations

Longer lengths mean fewer joints, also reducing the risk of leakage

Less plant machinery required on site

Using WEHOLITE proved both cost and time effective, as Kevin Parkhouse, General Foreman on site for contractor May Gurney said, "Speed proved a major factor in demonstrating the benefits of using ASSET WEHOLITE in preference to precast concrete box, resulting in savings in plant cost and overall project time scale."

Richard Pinnegar, Site Engineer for May Gurney, identified the key safety benefits to using the product on one particular site in the South West, "By using light-weight WEHOLITE we reduced the risks involved with lifting and positioning traditional concrete tanks, and hence WEHOLITE offered the safest solution for our workforce."