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The egeFit® fittings range offers custom-fit solutions for every construction situation.

At IFAT, egeplast is presenting monitored pipe systems for the protection of critical infrastructure.

We simplify the planning and implementation of your pipeline construction project and support you with individual consultation, service, and all essential information for your construction project.

In the district of Kleve, Amprion reached another milestone in August 2025 as part of the construction of the A-Nord DC connection: the Rhine crossing between Rees (Haffen) and Xanten (Obermörmter).

The close-fit method with pre-deformed PE pipes represents a highly efficient and economical solution for rehabilitating old pipelines.

At egeplast.de, customers find individual consultation and technical service for infrastructure projects worldwide.

Our infrastructures are facing rapidly growing challenges. Rising ambient temperatures, urban densification, and increasing regulatory requirements from the European Drinking Water Directive call for new solutions.

For the second time, egeplast has been honoured in the “Factory of the Year” benchmarking competition – in 2025 in the category “Outstanding Digitalisation & Automation”.

The Decision-Maker's Guide supports Design Engineers, clients, and users with all questions concerning the trenchless installation of PE pipe systems.

egeplast develops innovative Green Gas Pipes with an additional permeation barrier layer to reduce hydrogen and methane emissions.

A DN 500 asbestos cement sewer line was renewed trenchlessly using the close-fit method beneath an occupied campsite at Lake Balaton in Hungary.

With the full integration of egeplast pro cable, egeplast customers receive plastic pipes, fittings, systems, and service – all from a single source.

We were pleased to welcome two new employees, Felix Flüthmann and Atte Koskinen, to egeplast.

Dear Readers, since the outbreak of war in the Middle East at the end of February, the raw materials market has been thrown into disarray. As a plastics processor, we are directly affected by the consequences.

TransnetBW has awarded further lots for the construction of the SuedLink underground cable route. Here too, the underground cables will be protected by the egeplast Power Protect PE-RT system – in addition to the ongoing deliveries for lots 9 and 10.

Visit us at IFAT 2026 in Munich! May 4 to 7, 2026 in Hall B3, Booth 439 – we look forward to seeing you!

Sustainability in the supply chain is an important decision criterion for municipalities, utilities, and grid operators. Plastic pipes generally have a very good environmental footprint, especially compared to other materials.

For the rehabilitation of old sewer pipes, the egeLiner® sewer liner offers a sustainable and economical solution. The egeLiner® sewer liner is installed trenchlessly using close-fit lining and ensures future-proof rehabilitation due to its permanently sealed, welded connections and long service life. The rehabilitation specialists at Max Bögl have completed a first reference project.

Critical infrastructures – from drinking water networks to wastewater networks and industrial applications – are increasingly under pressure: aging, climate change, and rising demands for environmental and supply security.

The approximately 10 km long North Industrial Collector (ISN) in Dresden creates the necessary wastewater infrastructure for the expanding semiconductor industry.

We have redesigned our website for you. At www.egeplast.de, you can now find the right solution for your construction project even faster.

Legal obligations for risk management present new challenges for network operators and planning offices. egeplast smart pipes enable digital monitoring and thus sustainably support supply security and water quality – for resilient networks.

The transport of drinking water from the waterworks in Münster is now carried out by fully welded egeplast pipe systems.

Sustainability in the supply chain is an important decision criterion for network operators and investors when expanding fiber optic networks.

To enable more efficient long-term use of the valuable resource water, the Consorzio di Bonifica Veronese decided to construct an irrigation system for agricultural purposes.

Dear readers, with individual consultation and technical service, we aim to facilitate the planning and implementation of your projects – and offer you the suitable solution for your requirements.

We were pleased to welcome four new employees to egeplast: Jens Gabert, Alessandra Santato, Jacqueline Kattenbeck, and Bijay Lama.

We are delighted about this special award, which recognizes our innovative strength, the high quality of our products and our sustainability.

The new high-voltage line, an approximately seven-kilometer-long underground cable, is protected by the egeplast Power Protect cable protection pipe system, which was partially installed using horizontal directional drilling and plowing methods.

The construction of a wastewater transport pipeline for the discharge of wastewater from a newly established industrial plant via a pumping station into an adjacent sewage treatment plant presented all parties involved with major challenges.

Dear Readers, John Ruskin, the English polymath, put it succinctly: “Quality is no accident; it is always the result of strenuous thought.” What sets our products apart is not a matter of chance – it is the result of well-thought-out processes.

We were pleased to welcome two new field staff members, Mogens Ehmsen and Oliver Zachhuber.

The close-fit method with pre-shaped PE pipes is a highly efficient and sustainable pipe rehabilitation method for old drinking water pipes.

In Germany, the water sector is considered critical infrastructure, the failure or impairment of which would lead to long-term supply bottlenecks and significant disruptions to public life.

With a new high-potential programme, egeplast supports future specialists and managers in their professional development.

Stadtwerke Roth has begun the Installation of a new drinking water network pipeline from the Roth waterworks to secure the drinking water supply in the long term.

The professional handling of major projects is becoming increasingly important given the large number of underground cable projects running simultaneously in the direct current sector.

At the egeGigaFab at the egeplast headquarters, microducts required for broadband expansion in Europe are manufactured on an area of 11,000 m².

In times of increasing environmental requirements and more demanding sustainability goals, EPDs are gaining increasing importance.

In the southern Emsland region, the expansion of the green power grid is entering a significant phase with the grid connection to BorWin4 & DolWin 4.

We are pleased to have welcomed many new colleagues over the summer – both locally in Greven and in our international field service.

As a solution provider of pipeline systems, egeplast places great emphasis on offering its customers expert advice. To ensure this at the highest level, regular professional and technical training courses are a matter of course within the egeAcademy.

To ensure smooth and flawless pipe installation, even under challenging conditions, close cooperation between the pipe supplier, engineering firms, and contractors is the most effective approach.

egeplast has received the MX Award (Manufacturing Excellence Award) in the category "Best SME and Customer Orientation".

Through precisely fitting, pre-assembled solutions, construction costs at the Leimen wastewater treatment plant could be significantly reduced. The pipeline contractor Tecoba mastered the challenges at the Leimen wastewater treatment plant, limiting the assembly to connecting the specially pre-fabricated modules from egeplast, thereby realizing time and cost advantages.

Supply and operational reliability have absolute priority for Stadtwerke Lichtenfels. When constructing a new drinking water pipeline through impassable and difficult-to-access terrain using trench-reduced and trenchless installation methods, they therefore used the fully monitored egeplast SLM® DCS pipe system – for maximum safety.

In the course of the energy transition, the energy landscape in southern Emsland is undergoing change. At the Hanekenfähr site, the Emsland nuclear power plant will be taken off the grid at the end of 2022. At the same time, increasing amounts of wind energy from the north must be integrated into the grid in…

During the rehabilitation of the main water pipe in Hötensleben, the local water supplier and wastewater disposal company TAV Börde faced major challenges. Due to the demanding route and narrow access roads, the egeplast ege-Liner® was used in Close-Fit-Lining – an efficient and environmentally friendly solution.

To improve the stability of its own gas network, the network operator SWS Netze GmbH in Stralsund is investing in a new high-pressure interconnector. This pipeline connects the Stralsund West and East transfer stations and aims to ensure a more balanced utilization between both stations in the future.

In Eastern England, egeplast UK is making a significant contribution to the extensive modernization of the water network in East Ruston, near Norwich, England. This nearly €13.5 million project is the first collaboration between egeplast UK and the client Anglian Water, and it will secure the water supply for 5,000 people in the long term…

In the first half of 2023, the Swedish municipality of Östersund laid an 8 km long water pipeline between the old ferry port in Frösön and Sunne. A complex project, as the pipeline had to be laid through the completely frozen Lake Storsjön. The Extena pressure pipe made of polyethylene PE 100-RC, which is also…

Dear Customers and Business Partners, We are pleased to offer you the opportunity to take a look behind the scenes of our production. As a leading manufacturer of plastic pipes, we attach great importance to not only delivering high-quality products but also demonstrating transparency and innovative strength in manufacturing.

The Celtic Interconnector project is a technically demanding construction project aimed at connecting the power grids of Ireland and France via a 575 km high-voltage subsea cable. This ambitious infrastructure project is intended to facilitate cross-border electricity supply and contribute to European climate targets.

Sustainability plays a central role at egeplast. The development of products with a higher recycling content and the installation of a PV system are just some of the numerous initiatives and measures that are included in the sustainability report and have led to the EcoVadis ranking in silver.

Off the island of Baltrum, TenneT began connecting three offshore wind farms to the extra-high voltage grid in the summer of 2024. The new 525 kV DC connections of the 2 GW offshore grid connection projects BalWin3+4 and LanWin1 will strengthen the German power grid and increase the share of green electricity.

In Grenchen, Switzerland, another rehabilitation of the drinking water pipes took place. In order to guarantee the protection of the drinking water, the client SWG relied on egeplast SLA® Barrier Pipe pipes.

Durable, corrosion and abrasion resistant, and fully monitored – these were the requirements set by LMBV (Lausitzer und Mitteldeutsche Bergbauverwaltungsgesellschaft) for a new 13.5 km long brine transport pipeline from Menteroda to the central brine storage basin in Wipperdorf.

Droughts, floods, and other extreme weather events are increasingly presenting us with new challenges. egeNews reported on this in the 11/2022 issue. The safe transport of drinking water and wastewater is also becoming more complex and prone to disruption. With the intelligent pipe systems SLA® Barrier Pipe, SLM® DCS, and 3L Leak Control, egeplast offers…

The new leakage-monitored wastewater pressure pipeline at the Söse Dam, intended to replace the old asbestos cement pipe, had to be routed through drinking water protection zones of classes I and II.

The renewal of the water pipes for a government building in the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region presented the responsible parties with particular challenges: a very tight deadline of only four weeks, severe spatial restrictions, and freight times that could not be precisely calculated as an additional risk factor.

To ensure the drinking water supply for the 14,000 residents of Stavanger's Hundvåg district, the rehabilitation of the main water supply became necessary. The city administration opted for the diffusion-tight egeplast SLA® Barrier Pipe. Although the Installation was initially planned using the burstlining method through an existing cast iron pipe, a change to Open Trench…

In the Wahle-Mecklar pilot project of the project developer TenneT, Bohlen & Doyen used the "KaRoSch" cable pipe sled for the underground cabling section, a new Installation technology for power cables, and thus achieved a significant increase in efficiency: an up to 25% higher Installation speed, increased occupational safety and a significant reduction in resource…

Europe faces the challenge of renovating and modernizing its old and often dilapidated gas supply pipelines.

With the renewal of a 2 km-long water main for Welsh Water, which had to be installed trenchlessly beneath the River Dee estuary and routed through heavily contaminated soil, egeplast UK delivered a demanding project for the UK water industry.

Major project BorWin5 for safe and low-loss transport of green offshore electricity is progressing – De Romein GmbH is constructing the onshore route from Hilgenriedersiel to the Garrel/Ost converter station with the egeplast Power Protect protective pipe system.

Already known as a pioneer in thalassothermy, Monaco has set new standards with its latest project for reducing CO2 emissions. Through a 1.4 km long pipe system, seawater can be pumped up from a depth of 80 m and used to operate air conditioning or heating systems – a project complex in many respects...

To improve their environmental footprint, network operators can opt for the egeplast Microduct Green line, made from high-quality recyclates, which is also suitable for resource-efficient installation methods.

To secure the water supply for people in the region, the Oldenburgisch-Ostfriesische Wasserverband (OOWV) is building a new drinking water transport pipeline.

The establishment of a new infrastructure network for electromobility is well underway.

For the connection to the central wastewater treatment plant on the Vltava island of Císařský in Prague, a pipeline was installed under the Vltava using the HDD method. Tight bending radii made pipe installation difficult, and the geological conditions were unstable due to the slate rock.

To improve the drinking water supply in Aspach, a transport pipeline for treated drinking water was laid – partly without sand bedding using open trenching, partly using the flush drilling method.

Using controlled plow laying, IFK has installed numerous drinking water and wastewater pipes trenchlessly in the Czech Republic.

As part of this construction project, various companies, including a mega-greenhouse, were connected to the existing gas network. In the future, gas will be transported to consumers in the high-pressure transmission pipeline at a pressure level of 16 bar. Due to the required operating pressures, the egeplast HexelOne® SLM gas pipe with dimensions 160 x…

Esslingen municipal utility rehabilitated an old cast iron pipeline trenchlessly using burstlining. They were able to significantly reduce effort and costs compared to traditional rehabilitation methods. Due to the high requirements, they used the egeplast SLM® DCT pipe system with integrated quality inspection.

For many decades, socket connections have been a proven pipe connection technology in drinking water supply and a practical alternative to welding. In the current issue of 3R (01-02|2020), the egeplast egeMDR PE socket pressure pipe system with REINOGRIP push-fit socket from Reinert-Ritz is closely examined, using the example of Stadtwerke Sundern.