How PPR Pipe Is Made: 6 Stages and What to Ask Your Factory

IFAN ULTRA PP-R pipe lengths stacked after extrusion, showing the smooth outer wall and uniform bore of finished PPR pipe.

Search how PPR pipe is made and almost everything on the first page was written by a company selling extrusion machinery. That is not a criticism of those pages — they are accurate, and some are detailed. It is a warning about whose question they answer. They describe a production line because their reader is […]

PPR Pipe for Hot Water: Temperature, Pressure and the Design-Life Curve

Black UV-stabilised PP-R pipe with green inner layer, an SDR 7.4 UV-designated item from the IFANULTRA range

Specifiers keep asking the same two questions about PPR (polypropylene random copolymer) pipe: how hot can it run, and how much pressure will it hold once the water is hot? The short answer is that a PPR pipe rated PN20 is not a 20-bar hot-water pipe. The number on the coil is a cold-water reference, […]