Milliken, headquartered in Spartanburg, South Carolina, USA, is a supplier of speciality chemicals, floor coverings, and performance materials. The acquisition of Pipe Wrap expands its composites business and helps serve the growing oil and gas infrastructure repair market.
| Whether it’s concrete restoration or facility and pipeline maintenance, Milliken continuously explores new materials and methods that save time and money when rehabilitating, repairing, or strengthen ing infrastructure. |
| Dale Willis, vice president ofMilliken’s building and infrastructure busines |
Pipe Wrap designs and manufactures composite pipeline repair systems to address structure rehabilitation of high pressure pipes. Its products include Pipe Wrap®, an easy to use leak repair system employing a resin impregnated fibreglass tape which adheres to PVC, fibreglass, concrete and metal pipes, and the Atlas™ carbon fibre based piping remediation system, which features a high-modulus fibre reinforcement that can be used with a polyurethane or epoxy matrix.
Pipe Wrap is headquartered in Houston, Texas, and has operations in Denver, Colorado. Its two US patents, with four pending, add to Milliken’s patent collection, one of the largest held by a private company.
Milliken Infrastructure Solutions' products include Concrete Cloth™, a fabric impregnated with a specially formulated cement mix, and GeoSpray™, a high-performance geopolymer mortar designed for spray or spincast applications.
In June 2014, Spartanburg, South Carolina-based Milliken Infrastructure Solutions acquired the assets of Edge Structural Composites Inc, a producer of strengthening systems for structural upgrades, corrosion repairs, seismic strengthening, and other applications.
