Dear James: I plan to add a new bathroom, and some old plumbing should also be replaced. I’m not comfortable using a torch and solder, so would plastic plumbing be good? — Laura W. Dear Laura: ...

If you’ve never heard of polybutylene piping, chances are you’ve never needed a major plumbing renovation in your house. Polybutylene is often called “poly,” “Poly B,” or “PB.” These days, it no ...

Use plastic culvert pipes to make round garden planters. The flood from 2011 Tropical Storm Lee left upstate New York devastated. Aside from damage to personal and commercial property, flash flooding ...

Springfield, Mo.-based United Poly Systems LLC is extruding a new line of HDPE pipe in the same sizes as traditional copper tubes and iron pipes for a range of applications, particularly water uses.

Chauncey grew up on a farm in rural northern California. At 18 he ran away and saw the world with a backpack and a credit card, discovering that the true value of any point or mile is the experience ...

Vienna-based chemicals company Borealis announced today the introduction of what it says is the world’s first pipe portfolio made from cross-linked polyethylene (PE-X) with renewable feedstock that ...