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Home > News > Responding To Breaks Quickly & Safely
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  • October 13, 2023
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Responding To Breaks Quickly & Safely

In the water industry, your quick and safe response to pipeline breaks and repairs is not just a priority; it’s a necessity. Maintaining a reliable clean water supply that supports good health and hygiene is crucial for the well-being of your surrounding communities.

 

Delayed action in the upkeep of your water infrastructure can result in substantial water loss, public disturbance, extensive damage, and costly repair. While valve maintenance will reduce the likelihood of valve damage, a pipe can become faulty for many reasons. Knowing why ruptures occur and having the appropriate equipment available will ensure employee safety, minimise damage and save you time.

However, challenges are inevitable, and there are many issues involved:

  1. Pipeline Breaks: Aging infrastructure, environmental factors including ground movement and corrosion, water pressure fluctuations, and unexpected accidents can lead to pipe breaks. 
  2. Long Hours: Pipeline breaks can disrupt for many reasons and delays to a repair can affect water supplies to communities, cause property damage and safety hazards. 
  3. Downtime Costs: While a water supply is interrupted, businesses and communities experience financial losses and overall inconvenience. If timely repair is neglected, these losses will build up and cause frustration within communities.
  4. Safety Concerns: Repairing pipelines can be dangerous work. Your labourers face potential risks of exposure to hazardous materials, confined spaces, and challenging weather conditions.
  5. Environmental Impact: The water industry is under increasing pressure to minimise environmental impact. Traditional repair methods often involve significant excavation, which can damage environments and disrupt communities.

Your Solution: Wachs Pipe Cutting Equipment

Valvemax understands the critical importance of your approach to pipeline repairs. Wachs innovative pipe-cutting equipment offers you a perfect solution to address your challenges and streamline your repair process:

  1. Efficient Pipe Cutting: A simple and straightforward operation allows workers to learn easily and get jobs done faster. Highly adaptable, allowing you to customise it to suit your specific needs, Wachs Diamond Wire Saws mount vertically or horizontally and are capable of cutting all types of pipe materials. A digital display on the top of the saw allows the operator to monitor progress. They are equipped with user-replaceable clamp contact pads and wheel inserts to make maintenance a breeze.
  2. Easy Rapid Deployment: Lightweight, sturdy, and compactable designs make it easy to transport and store allowing for efficient deployment and reducing operator fatigue caused by manual handling of heavy hand tools. Compact pipe-cutting requires no unnecessary resources spent on extensive excavation which also reduces the environmental impact.
  3. Enhanced Safety Measures: EH Wachs equipment straps securely onto the pipe to eliminate kickback accidents. Along with Pinch Proof Technology and a motorised guillotine style preventing any offline cuts, blade jams, or blade damage. Working quickly and easily, the machines require no long hours of heavy-duty physical labour to minimise operators’ fatigue.
  4. Economical Usage: Compact designs built to last provide you with reliable performance and require less space to work and store. Consistently quick, smooth, and precise cuts, minimal heat generation, and lower oxidation in metals conserve time, money, and material waste while load-sensing features preserve the wire life.
 

With Wachs pipe-cutting equipment at your disposal, you can respond to pipeline breaks and repairs quickly and safely. By providing you with efficient pipe-cutting tools that are easy to transport and use with enhanced safety measures and economical usage, Wachs equipment is a game-changer for your water network. 

Book your Demo Today to discover a more efficient, safe, and environmentally responsible approach to pipeline repairs and ensure the continued well-being and prosperity of your community.

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