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Improving operational safety for life

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Improving operational safety for life

The challenges impacting operational safety worldwide

Operational safety challenges

Safety is an important issue when it comes to sustainability. Sustainability as a topic traditionally focuses on three areas: environmental, economic, and social sustainability – but in an operational setting, they are all bound together by one common denominator: safety. Organizations cannot be sustainable without protecting their vital resources’ health, safety, and welfare – their employees and the environment around them.

Process safety

Creating a safe and sustainable working environment depends on a reliable network of elements that must function to ensure a secure process. Process safety in industrial settings may focus on preventing leaks, spills, equipment malfunction, overpressures, over temperatures, corrosion, fires, explosions, and chemical accidents in chemical process facilities or other facilities dealing with hazardous materials.

Physical safety

With rigorously enforced legal restrictions for the safe transport of hazardous media and environmental safety, plant operators worldwide must fulfill environmental and employee protection standards. So, semiconductor manufacturers under pressure to satisfy the ever-increasing demand from the tech industry, chemical plant operators striving to meet increased demand for materials, or merchant shipping companies needing to escape congestion in ports cannot cut corners on physical safety for their employees.

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Performance material solutions

Your partner for providing operational safety

 

 

 

As a leading global piping systems company, one of our goals is to help our customers to improve operational safety and overcome environmental safety challenges through innovation. By developing highly engineered products, pioneering jointing technologies, and industry-leading training capabilities, we create solutions that will enhance operational safety and enable our customers to avoid accidents, leakages, and reputation loss.

One community, one purpose

How we’re already helping to improve operational safety globally

 

 

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Chiyoda, Japan

  • For the construction of a refining system for a new plant, a complete PROGEF solution by long-time partner GF Piping Systems was the preferred choice. The plant will benefit from a safe, long-lasting, and cost-effective electrolytic refining solution when it is operational at the end of 2024.
  • Global prefabrication capabilities allowed GF Piping Systems to successfully meet tight deadlines and a large order volume. GF Piping Systems also offers additional services, ranging from online calculation tools and CAD libraries to chemical resistance support and training courses. 18 prefabrication facilities around the world facilitate customization and a quick turnaround.
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Ross-Shire Engineering, UK

  • Ross-shire Engineering (RSE) selected a complete solution by GF Piping Systems to provide South Staffordshire Water with long-lasting chemical dosing systems. Ceramic membranes are an effective way to eliminate impurities such as bacteria, sediment, and turbidity. Compared to other treatment methods, membrane treatment plants are often more compact and energy efficient while meeting stringent guidelines and ensuring a consistent water quality. When RSE was tasked with constructing six new complete chemical dosing systems as part of their latest ceramic membrane water treatment plant, the UK company selected an infrared welded PVC-U solution by GF Piping Systems.
  • Infrared welded PVC-U is a new development by GF Piping Systems for chemical processing and water treatment applications. It combines the proven benefits of PVC-U as a material with modern infrared welding machines. Due to a machine-controlled process, variables such as temperatures, jointing times, and cooling periods are consistent and repeatable. The welding machines are also capable of detecting any deviations from the defined parameters, while a printer provides labels for full traceability.
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ProMinent, Sweden

  • ProMinent made the switch to solvent-free infrared fusion, ensuring safe and precise jointing, while using services from material selection to on-site machine training. Chemical dosing cabinets are integrale components in water treatment, ensuring precise and consistent dosing levels. ProMinent chose GF Piping Systems’ infrared welded PVC-U system for preassembled dosing cabinets due to its chemical resistance against various acids and alkalis and ease of weld reproducibility with the IR-63 M fusion machine.
  • IR PVC-U offers enhanced chemical resistance without the need for adhesives, ensuring durability while meeting all environmental requirements for the Nordic market. This system enables immediate pressure testing, eliminating curing times and enhancing production efficiency. The machine-guided welding process minimizes the risk of human error and provides consistent joint quality, allowing the highest reliability and security for chemical dosing cabinets. The IR-63 M is equipped with printer compatibility to generate labels and protocols for each weld, facilitating thorough traceability and documentation of the welding process.
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ASE Co. Ltd, Korea

  • Korean semiconductor wafer cleaning business trusts one-solution provider and PVDF-HP piping system. Korean equipment manufacturer ASE Co. Ltd. successfully transitioned from metal to the corrosion-free PVDF piping system solution SYGEF Plus with the help of one-solution provider GF Piping Systems Engineering Services to ensure high purity of the box cleaning process in their semiconductor wafer cleaning business.
  • SYGEF Plus PVDF-HP, the high purity piping system from GF Piping Systems, met the high needs of ASE Co. Ltd. as they decided to replace stainless steel 316 with a PVDF-HP piping system. With the new system ASE avoids corrosion issues in their box cleaning system, part of their semiconductor wafer cleaning business, dealing with hydrochloric acid and ultrapure water (UPW). In SYGEF Plus, all components are corrosion free and o er a dead-leg free system design. It is produced in a German, most advanced ISO Class 5 (100) clean-room production facility. The outstanding physical and chemical resistance of the PVDF pipes makes them ideal for use in cold and hot ultrapure water systems or high-purity chemicals in the microelectronics industry.
1,282 fatal occupational injuries

In 2020 in the US, workers in transportation and material moving occupations and construction and extraction occupations accounted for nearly half of all fatal occupational injuries (47.4 percent), representing 1,282 and 976 workplace deaths, respectively.

Hazardous chemical production

In 2020, 284 million tonnes of hazardous chemicals were produced in the EU alone, 230 million tonnes of which were hazardous to human health. In the same year, 302 million tonnes were consumed.

38.8M workdays lost

In 2019/2020, it’s estimated that 38.8 million workdays were lost in the UK due to workrelated illnesses and workplace accidents. As a result, the average absent employee took 17.6 days off to recover from a work-related accident or illness.

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Sustainability at GF Piping Systems

GF Piping Systems is committed to enabling the safe and sustainable transport of water, gas and chemicals. Only by considering the needs of all key stakeholders can the company, the planet, and society at large thrive in the long term.

GF Piping Systems Data Center Portal

We have developed a specific Data Center Portal designed to help and guide our customers through the conversion process from metallic piping to a complete plastic engineered solution. As well as explaining the detailed applications in a Data Centers where GF pipes are applicable, the portal also provides valuable technical data to key engineering questions.

Data Centers

Our plastic piping solutions for cooling applications are the result of years of pioneering innovation, providing owners and operators of data centers with a quicker set-up and more efficient and reliable operation during the entire service life of their projects.

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Global industries

We are committed to supporting our customers success with innovative solutions

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Chemical Process

Secure your flow - more safety with complete system solutions by GF Piping Systems. Decision-makers have one goal in common: to manufacture chemical products cost-efficiently in a complex market. We offer safe and reliable solutions for the cost-efficient manufacturing of chemical products. Our focus lies on applications in the fields of chemical production, chemical distribution and surface treatment.

Marine

The maintenance-free, easy and complete solutions of GF Piping Systems for water and cooling applications onboard help you to increase the safety and comfort of your passengers and the efficiency of your ship. At the same time, they contribute to lowering the maintenance and overall costs and reducing downtimes as much as possible. Our products warrant the safe conveyance of drinking water and other process fluids on board – without altering their quality in the least.

  • Future horizons. Sustainable water solutions for marine.
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Microelectronics

GF Piping Systems has supported the semiconductor industry’s efforts to build the most sustainably managed fabrication factories for more than 30 years. Our global teams help the industry manufacture some of the world’s most advanced technologies while still supporting their mission to use water resources more sustainability, reduce their carbon footprint, and lessen their impact on the environment.

Specialized Solutions

With Specialized Solutions, GF Piping Systems supports the design and installation of state of the art plastic piping systems, so that owners and planners can concentrate on their daily business without interruption. GF Piping Systems is present every step of the way, from providing planning support on new projects to testing the condition of old systems.

  • GF Piping Systems and its Specialized Solutions cover every aspect of a project’s process, from the design phase all the way through to installation and maintenance.
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Proposal and Detailed Engineering

Increase the efficiency of your project with the tailor-made analysis packages from GF Piping Systems and decide which offer is right for you according to your needs.

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Pre-fabricated Solutions

Having your individual needs and application in focus, our customizing teams forge the solution that fits you best, developing custom-made parts to complete systems or special solutions produced in small series, individual consulting and off-site prefabrication. 

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Condition Analysis

Specialized insight: Performance assured, for your peace of mind. This attention to detail enables informed decisions throughout a project's operation.