Visitors to the Victaulic booth at the conference exhibition, which is being held in Wollongong this year and is expected to attract a lot of interest from the Illawarra coal industry, will be introduced to the Installation-Ready Style 905 coupling for joining plain-end HDPE pipe, according to the company.

Victaulic regional manager David Greenwood said the Refuse-To-Fuse line strives to help the Australian mining industry with solutions that will dramatically reduce pipe installation time, ease maintenance and quality control checks, and ultimately deliver projects on time and within budget.

“We are pleased to be revealing three more innovations to the Australian and New Zealand market,” he said.

“We invite attendees to visit the Victaulic booth to see our latest advancements for coal mining and to discover how the speed of installation and reliability of our products can positively impact their bottom line. Piping systems converted from flanged to grooved have experienced significant time and cost savings.

“For example, a recent planned system shutdown that was scheduled for six hours turned into less than three hours with a Victaulic system—totalling more than 50% in savings.”

The keynote speaker for this year’s conference will be NSW Minerals Council CEO Stephen Galilee and the Arthur Le Page Lecture will be delivered by Jim Donnelly.